Re: Prompt with colors code causes incorrect wrap at the end of the line

[Chet Ramey]

Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> [ if there was junk mail sent from my adddress I am sorry for that, 
> accident while using bashbug program ] 
>
>
>
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i586
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: 
> gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2 -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2/../readline-5.2
> Compilation 
> CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux-gnu
> uname output: Linux flatline 2.6.22.18-61-default #1 SMP 2008/02/15 
> 03:27:01 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i586-suse-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 25
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> Compare to prompts:
> export PS1='\e[37;1;40m[\A]\e[0m$(pwd)> '
> export PS1='[\A]$(pwd)> '
>
> the former it is the same as the latter but uses color. When using 
> colorful prompt and entering very long line the word wrap works 
> incorrectly.

Please read the Bash FAQ, question E3.

Chet
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