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Re: bash-3.2 regression: command history display with coloured PS1.


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: bash-3.2 regression: command history display with coloured PS1.
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:35:07 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Peter Volkov <torre_cremata@mail.ru> writes:

> Steps to reproduce:
> PS1="\e[36m[\e[34m\u\e[0m \e[32m\w\e[36m] \\$\e[0m "

This is broken.  You need to bracket escape sequences with \[ \].

Andreas.

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