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RE: Line breaks in bash
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: 'Andrew DeFaria' <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:49:17 -0400
- Subject: RE: Line breaks in bash
Maybe you are missing a \] in the prompt. What you really want is something
like this:
"\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33m\]C09-272-A:\[\e[0m\]"
(What are \w and \a doing? man bash says that they should be the current
working directory and a bell, but they don't act like that in this prompt
for me.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew DeFaria
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash
When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when
it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an
example.
C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80
characters bash
does som
ething like this?
Now set my prompt to the hostname as
"\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33mC09-272-A:\e[0m". Could this be causing the problem?
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