On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:53:03AM +0100, Carsten Wimmer wrote: > Hi! > > >> I was wondering....how might I get the login prompt to use some colors? > > in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: > > I tried this and the colors themselves work fine. > > But if I type something on the keyboard and hit column ~70, all the > next characters are placed on the same row and column 1. No real line > bread is done, also the columns 70-80 are completely unused. > I am using rxvt v2.4.5 and GNU bash 2.01.1(1). > > Without the \e['s it works as expected (real line bread at > col 80). Any ideas?
You need to tell the shell to only count certain characters so it knows the correct width. See the example below. If you're changing colors several times, you will need \[ \] pairs around each set of color control chars. # Set up shell variables: case "$TERM" in xterm* ) PS1='\h \w \$ \[\033]0;\h \w\007\]' ;; # set xterm title/icon # \[ \] surround non-printing chars * ) PS1='\h \w \$ ' ;; esac -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
