Re: BASH BUG

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

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On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> try the following PS1 (for root) and notice what happens:
> 	export PS1='^[[1m^[[31m\h:\w\$^[[0m '
> 
> ^[ are scape secuences... This PS1 is red and shows the hostname and
> the path.
> Or try other scape secuences.
> 
> Before you reach the end of the line, bash jump to the start of it...
> and when you go back, it goes two lines above. Try it ! It's really
> annoying.

AFAIK (and can rember) there is some way to tell bash: "Hey! look, now
there comes an escape sequence of non printable caracters, take this in
account, when calculating the line lenght!" ... but I don't know, where I
found this information :-(

Martin

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