On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 07:35:09AM -0600, Dennis Williamson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:46 AM Алексей Шилин <rootl...@mail.ru> wrote: > > And they *are* enclosed: PS1='\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot... > > You have printable characters enclosed. For example, \u. _Each_ sequence of > unprintable characters needs to be separately enclosed _without_ enclosing > the printable ones.
You're misunderstanding. The entire sequence from \e]0; to \a is a single terminal escape sequence that says "all this stuff in between, put that in the status title meta area, instead of writing it on the terminal".