Hi, On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:40:13AM +0800, Chan-Wah Ng wrote: > I have this annoying problem with bash: whenever I tried to autocomplete > a long path, or try to press the up arrow key to go back to a previous > long command, bash always thinks that my console or Eterm window is less > than 80 columns and wraps around in a way that mess up the screen.
I had the same problem: I changed my PS1 (the variable which defines the prompt) to have colors with ANSI-sequences, like \033[31;1m. But these ANSI-sequence must be cirumscribed by \[ and \] (e.g. \[\033[31;1m\]; as the Gentoo default). hth, Ingo
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