xterm escape sequence problem

[Joseph Shraibman]

I have the following in my .bashrc:

 PS1="[\u@\h \w] "
if [ $TERM = xterm ] 
then
# see http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Xterm-Title.html
export PS1="\033]2;\u@\h:\w\007[\u@\h \w] "
fi

This displays the prompt as I expect it, but sometimes the prompt gets 
mangled, for example when using the up arrow to browse through the 
history or using backspace to edit the command I just typed.  I'm not 
sure what the problem is here.  It is probably an xterm problem, but 
I can't figure out what it is.  Is the PS1 string output each time the 
up arrow is typed?  Does anyone else have examples of xterm escape 
sequences that work?

[jks@d1 ~] xterm -version
XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b)


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