On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Gilles Espinasse <[email protected]> wrote:
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> From: "DJ Lucas" <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 8:29 AM
> Subject: LFS-6.6 - Old bug in bash has returned
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>> Can someone confirm? This was an old bug that seems to have returned in
>> LFS-6.6. When you use color escapes (or presumably any other escape
>> sequence), the count is added for the total of all columns, followed by
>> line wrapping overwriting the prompt. I don't know a better way to
>> explain other than showing:
>>
> not a bug
> I fixed the same mistake in our prompt 2 years ago
> you have to escape with \[ \] the non printing characters
Actually on my mac and the gentoo livecd it acts normal without that
line thingy appering for me possibly because you are using a old
version.
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>> I like to use red for root (to make it explicitly clear that your are
>> working as root!). Added the blue color to make it easier to reproduce
>> and managed to make it even more of an annoying problem:
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>> r...@anu:/sources/lfs-bootscripts-20100527 $ echo $PS1
>> \033[1;31...@\h:\033[1;34m\w \033[0;39m$
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> should be
> \[\033[1;31m\...@\h:\[\033[1;34m\]\w\[\033[0;39m\]
>
> Gilles
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