Thanks very much for the help guys. Sorry for blaming tmux.
Yotam
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Nicholas Marriott <
nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you use invisible characters in your prompt you need to tell the
> shell by enclosing them in \[ and \]. If you don't then it will
> miscalculate the prompt width.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:31:06PM -0400, Yotam Barnoy wrote:
> > I hope this is the right place to report this.
> > On OSX, if I open a tmux pane and my .bashrc happens to assign a
> color to
> > the prompt using the ANSI escape sequences (e.g. #PS1="\e[0;34m\h:\W\$
> > \e[m"), I get an odd problem. Whenever I get a line that fills up the
> > width of my pane, for example when paging through history, the
> terminal
> > misbehaves, usually by keeping a certain number of beginning
> characters
> > from that line on-screen. So for example if i had
> >
> > 'my-computer$ sudo port upgrade foo..' (pretend it's a full line)
> >
> > and then I paged through history using the up arrow, once I
> encountered
> > the above line in history I'd get
> >
> > 'my-computer$ sudo port upg rt install bar'
> >
> > on my terminal. The first characters of the wide line are stuck there
> and
> > won't go away. This makes correcting anything in history very
> difficult.
> >
> > Also, when I add to a line from history, the terminal won't scroll to
> the
> > next line once I fill up the line, but will scroll onto the same line.
> >
> > Removing the color escape sequences from the command prompt solves
> this
> > issue, but is obviously not the fix I want.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Yotam Barnoy
>
> >
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