Re: Prompt - cursor position - command history display problem

[Chet Ramey]

Timothy James Erlenmeyer wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 28
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> With
> a color prompt, long directory names, and/or long command lines, scrolling
> through the command history often causes the cursor to be in the wrong
> position, the prompt to loose color and remnants of previous long commands
> to remain on the line with short commands.
> 
> Repeat-By:
> 
> * This line is
> placed in ~/.bashrc:
> 
> PS1='[e[31;2m]w$[e[0m] '

Please read the Bash FAQ, question E3.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/