I do like to use a colorized promt to show my running jobs and whether my AWS creds are in the environment, but I usually use the built in PS2 rather than create insanely long lines. It took a while to develop that habit, though, but it works better. You can of course break lines arbitrarily with a "\"
Tim Kelley On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: > On 05/01/2015 12:07 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I entered the following in .bashrc > > > > PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m' > > > > to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command > > fills the console screen with lines of text) > > > > The only problem occurs when the next entry is more than one line. In > > that case the entry wraps around without moving to a new line. Instead > > it overwrites the begining of the current line. The command will still > > work but cannot be revised in the case of a typo. > > > > For example the prompt alone may be almost a line long, the \w means it > > will contain the full path to the current directory. The next command > > to be entered is a long one that should wrap to a new line but instead > > begins to overwrite the directory path. You see you made a typo and try > > to move back with the left arrow key and instead the cursor jumps to the > > line above. > > > > Admittedly this is an infrequent and not a serious problem. Still it is > > annoying when it occurs. Have I made an error in the colorizing prompt? > > The bash manpage suggests enclosing the non-printing escape sequences > inside \[ and \]. This is not 100% effective, but it helps. > > > -- > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > edua...@kalinowski.com.br > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55439e1b.2010...@kalinowski.com.br > >
