Assuming some of your prompt is non-printing (escape sequences) offset those non-printing portions with \[backslash-escaped square brackets\]. That tells BASH (and / or the readline library it incorporates) not to count those portions for the purpose of wrapping the displayed input lines.
Randall Schulz
At 19:41 2003-01-31, Rolf Campbell wrote:
I've noticed several display problems with bash and prompts. Here's an easy way to recreate one of them:(I've marked the lines to alleviate the wrapping problem) #line 1 PS1='$PWD> ' #line2 mkdir -p /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp #line3 cd /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp When I run this (whether it be in rxvt or in the NT console) I get a prompt that looks like this: /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp(#1) /tmp(#2) /tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp/tmp> I've marked the original new-lines. (#1) in a correct wrap that occurred at the edge of my display. (#2) is an incorrect wrap that happens for no obvious reason. This only seems to happen if the path is wider than the display. -Rolf Campbell
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