Re: PS1 has ruined line wrap

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/25/10 3:38 PM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> I was using this as my ps1
> PS1='[\u@\[\e[1;31m\]\h\[\e[0m\]:$PWD]\$ '
> 
> But I wanted to label the title of my xterm windows with the hostname of
> system Im logged into. So I added the following
> PS1='[\u@\[\e[1;45m\]\h\[\e[0m\] $PWD]\e]2;@ \H\a\$ '
> 
> It works great except for it rewrites the current line if I write text past
> the current window size (regardless of the window size).
> filenameERVERNAME:/home/jreed]$ cat /a/really/long_fi
> 
> Any suggestions?

You might consider bracketing all sequences of non-printing characters
with \[ and \].



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