Re: newline in terminal??
Hey again,
Oh I see what you mean, hehe, I was kind of confused by if I was to
trail my text everytime with those codes or change my prompt. All is
well now; I had a typo in my bash prompt that was causing the problem.
Thanks for hte help :)
Rohan
* Simon Law (sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rohan Deshpande wrote:
>
> > Hey again,
> >
> > ASDF JLK;
> >
> > This bug is really annoying me. I use the terminal just like everyone
> > else and having my text be rewritten over as I type is just plain
> > annoying. Anyone discovered a solution yet?
>
> I've got a question for you. Is your prompt set to use
> non-printing characters (like ANSI escape codes for colours?) If so,
> your shell may be confused about the number of characters you actually
> have on a line. If so, you will want to escape your non-printing
> characters by surrounding them with \[ and \].
>
> Simon
>
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