On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew DeFaria > > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM > > To: cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com > > Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash > > > > 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? > > > > Now set my prompt to the hostname as > > "\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33mC09-272-A:\e[0m". Could this be causing the problem? > > Maybe you are missing a \] in the prompt. What you really want is something > like this: > "\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33m\]C09-272-A:\[\e[0m\]"
Any sequence of non-printable characters should be enclosed in '\['..'\]' for bash to not count it towards the current length of the line. > (What are \w and \a doing? man bash says that they should be the current > working directory and a bell, but they don't act like that in this prompt > for me.) '\e]0;' will set the window title to the string that follows it (up to a '\a', so that's the terminator). So, the above should set the window title to the current working directory, and the prompt will be displayed as "C09-272-A:". If you wanted the current working directory displayed in the prompt, you could use "\[\e[01;33m\]C09-272-A:\w:\[\e[0m\]" instead. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/