Re: Prompt messed up if PS1 contains ANSI escape sequences

[Gioele Barabucci]

On 07/09/23 16:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 04:03:39PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> > The following snippet shows that, even with the final \], Bash produces the
> > same erroneous output and miscalculates the cursor position (it just needs a
> > longer prompt):
> >
> >      $ long_name="$(printf 'abcdef0123456789/%.0s' {0..20})"
> >      $ mkdir -p /tmp/$long_name
> >      $ cd /tmp/$long_name
> >      $ PS1=$'\n\[\e[1m\]\w\[\e[m\] \$ '
> >
> >      Now press the up arrow, then the down arrow)
>
> Have you tried testing with several different terminal emulators? 

Yes. I tried with xterm, gnome-terminal and the native Linux VT. They 
all show the same problem.

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Gioele Barabucci