On Apr 8, 7:16 am, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:04:58PM -0700, Special Sauce wrote: > > > [an...@nobby-nobbs ~]$ echo $PS1 > > [\[\e[28;1m\...@\h\[ \e[0m\]\w]$ > > ^^^ > The space after \[ is not correct. You're sending a space to the terminal > (or possibly more than one space -- since you didn't quote "$PS1" when > you expanded it, we can't tell), but you're telling bash that it isn't > moving the cursor (because you have \[ before it). > > Whether that's causing your problems, I can't say, but it's definitely > not right.
Didn't know that, but, like I said, works fine with bash 3.xx Here is a minimalist start: [an...@nobby-nobbs ~/bucket/bash-4.0]$ ./bash --version GNU bash, version 4.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) ... [an...@nobby-nobbs ~/bucket/bash-4.0]$ ./bash -v export PS1="[\[\e[28;1m\...@\h \[\e[0m\]\w]\$ " [an...@nobby-nobbs ~/bucket/bash-4.0]$ Now the cursor is on top of the '/' between bash and bucket. If I cd to my home directory and try to recreate the problem the cursor is on top of the '-' in my hostname. Maybe its always a fixed number of characters before the end of the prompt... but why would that be happening?
