-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frank Penczek wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Matt Harrison > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I connect to my SXCE box regularly over ssh and I've got a bash line >> wrapping problem that is driving me mad. I googled about this for 2 >> weeks and haven't found any solution. >> >> If I type a command that exceeds 65 characters (including the shell >> prompt), it causes the line to wrap to the beginning of the same line, >> and if I go back to change the command, it litters up the entire >> terminal. Apart from making a mess it makes it really hard to work in >> the console. >> >> This problem manifests when connecting over ssh from either a linux >> machine with Konsole, or from Windows with PuTTY. I have tried various >> things, including changing terminal types, and using the "shopt" internal. >> >> In linux this problem occurred now and then but merely setting my term >> type to "linux" always sorted it out. >> >> Does anyone have any information relating to this, if I can find a >> solution it would make my life so much easier. >> >> On a side note, i have "\w" in my PS1 prompt to display the CWD. This is >> supposed to abbreviate the CWD with a tilde if working inside the home >> directory. Unfortunately, if working as any user other than root, the >> path is always displayed in full, as if outside the home directory. This >> makes the prompt very large and adds to the 65 character limit problem. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> >> Matt > > I've had a very similar problem. It turned out that it was related to > escape sequences I've used for colours, more specifically, that bash > didn't recognised these as non-printable characters (so I read). > Embedding all sequences in \[ and \] solved it for me. For example, if > your prompt command is "\e[0;37m\W\e[0;34$ " change it to > "\[\e[0;37m\]\W\[\e[0;34\]$ " and see if it works for you as well. > > Cheers, > Frank >
Excellent, I was using a lot of colour escapes in my profile and wrapping them with \[ and \] has solved the wrapping problem. Now I just have to find out why \w isn't being collapsed to a tilde when possible :P Thanks Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkipp/AACgkQiMZP8RXkRgRduQCgjFtNXtS4Cf56QndNyfVMwzkf 8BoAmwR50Di++8xZPor/VaNEt2X8fC5h =UAWq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
