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Re: Trouble in RXVT with line wrap
- To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at home dot com>, Sandeep Tamhankar <sandman at Interwoven dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Trouble in RXVT with line wrap
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 07:24:26 -0700
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010703174151.0279f238@pop3.cris.com><3B425069.6040200@Interwoven.com><5.1.0.14.0.20010703173051.030d7a90@mail>
David,
Isn't _what_ a bug? I have no trouble with line wrap, including backspacing
from a wrapped line back to the line on which typing began. With or without
readline expansions having been applied.
I experience no troubles whatsoever, and have not since I got the prompt
strings worked out to properly use \[ ... \].
Randall
At 07:19 2001-07-04, David A. Cobb wrote:
>At 7/3/01 08:47 PM (Tuesday), Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Here's a little more on the promt business. It has proved popular with
>>fellow nerds in my office:
>>
>>My PS1 for any terminal (emulator) that supports it (xterm, xterm-color,
>>vt100, vt102, vt220, cytwin, at least) is this:
>>
>>
>>PS1=$'\[\e]0; \u :: \W (\w)\a\]\!> '
>># Note:
>># This sequence:
>># ESC]0;
>># ^ zero
>># Starts the title setting sequence. Everything from there to
>># the CTRL-G (also "\a" within $'...') is put in the window title.
>># Some terminal emulators (notably TeraTerm) put a pretty stingy
>># limit on how much they'll display, but you don't have to limit
>># the length you attempt to put there
>
>Yes! Works as advertised and it's a thing of beauty.
>
>But isn't it still a bug in bash (or bash's in-built subset of readline)?
>
>
>>I don't mind the information typically put into prompts, but I _hate_ to
>>have it literally in the prompt!
>>
>>Randall
>
>David A. Cobb
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