BTW, thanks much for an overlooked, and elegant solution!
Bob Proulx wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
there some easy way to tell bash either to not keep track of what
it thinks is the screen width (and just allow it to wrap, if that's
possible), or to reset bash's idea of where it thinks it is on t
Dennis Williamson wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
(My 'PUBLIC's are short for:
alias PUB_CONST="typeset -xr"
alias PUBLIC="typeset -x" � � � ##aka EXPORT
Why not just do
export _prompt_open=""
Except that it's not likely that those variables need to be exporte
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> For completeness current code (haven't fixed the DISPLAY part yet):
>
> if [ -n "$_sh_interactive_shell" ] ; then shopt -s cdspell checkhash
> checkwinsize cmdhist dotglob extglob shopt -s histappend
> hostcomplete lithist
>
For completeness current code (haven't fixed the DISPLAY part yet):
if [ -n "$_sh_interactive_shell" ] ; then
shopt -s cdspell checkhash checkwinsize cmdhist dotglob extglob
shopt -s histappend hostcomplete lithist
shopt -s no_empty_cmd_completion xpg_echo
# build a prompt #
Bob Proulx wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
But anyway, something else is is awry.
Now my root prompt, instead of being red, looks like:
"\[\033[1m\]\[\033[31m\]Ishtar:root#\[\033[0m\] "
;-/
That will be due to incorrect quoting. Which suggestion did you
implement? There were several.
What v
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> red=$(tput setaf 1) bold=$(tput bold) reset=$(tput sgr0)
> PS1='\[$red\]\h\[$reset\]:\[$bold\]\w\[$reset\]\$ '
>
> I tested that. It works.
Nicely cleaned up!
> PS1='\h:\w\$ '
For what it is worth I use something similar:
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
Bob
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:17:05PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>_CRed=$(tput setaf 1) #Red
>_CRST=$(tput sgr0) #Reset
>_CBLD=$(tput bold) #Bold
>_prompt_open=""
>_prompt_close=""
>_prompt=">"
>[[ $UID -eq 0 ]] && {
>_prompt_open="$_CBLD$_CRed"
>_prompt_
Linda Walsh wrote:
> But anyway, something else is is awry.
>
> Now my root prompt, instead of being red, looks like:
>
> "\[\033[1m\]\[\033[31m\]Ishtar:root#\[\033[0m\] "
>
> ;-/
That will be due to incorrect quoting. Which suggestion did you
implement? There were several.
> What version of
Bob Proulx wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
Thanks for all the great suggestions on how to do the
encoding differently -- how about ideas on the input line
length being truncated?
You seem to have misunderstood.
---
Actually, I saw the two rewrites first as they were sent via
Personal mail and li
Linda Walsh wrote:
> Thanks for all the great suggestions on how to do the
> encoding differently -- how about ideas on the input line
> length being truncated?
You seem to have misunderstood. Each and every one of those response
has addressed your issue of input line length problems. The soluti
Thanks for all the great suggestions on how to do the
encoding differently -- how about ideas on the input line
length being truncated?
;-)
Andreas Schwab wrote:
Dennis Williamson writes:
_CRed='\[\033[31m\]' #Red
_CRST='\[\033[0m\]' #Reset
_CBLD='\[\033[1m\]' #Bold
_CRed="\\[$(tput s
Dennis Williamson writes:
> _CRed='\[\033[31m\]' #Red
> _CRST='\[\033[0m\]' #Reset
> _CBLD='\[\033[1m\]' #Bold
_CRed="\\[$(tput setaf 1)\\]"
_CRST="\\[$(tput sgr0)\\]"
_CBLD="\\[$(tput bold)\\]"
Andreas.
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I'm having a problem, I think, due to my setting the prompt in
> 'root' mode, to a different color. This results in me being able to
> enter only 49 characters on the input line before it wraps to the next
> line.
>
> I add an open and close
Linda Walsh wrote:
> I'm having a problem, I think, due to my setting the prompt in
> 'root' mode, to a different color. This results in me being able to
> enter only 49 characters on the input line before it wraps to the next
> line.
It sounds like you have forgotten to enclose non-printing cha
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