At 06:34 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote: >When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when it passes the >first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an example. > >C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80 characters bash >does som >ething like this?
Works fine for me. >Now set my prompt to the hostname as "\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33mC09-272-A:\e[0m". Could >this be causing the problem? Yes, apparently. I could reproduce your problem using your prompt. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/