Just wondering about the lack of response... - Maybe nobody had time to look into this? (likely)
- nobody cares since it's really only a problem with the combination of \w and color prompts? (With \W it only happens with an artificially long directory name as in my example.) - Maybe this is a repeat of old thread(s)? Well, I did find one similar thread http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/68274b1c434bd541/d2760d11300ff621?lnk=gst&q=color+%5Cw#d2760d11300ff621 ...which roughly went like: - someone reports a problem with line wraps and color prompts - everybody says "read the FAQ section E3/E5 (depending on version)" - the original poster says "okay I've properly escaped my prompt according to the FAQ, but there are still problems" - no further replies. I also found this, from 1999(!) which looks closer to my problem, with no replies at all: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/ba19c607d66bc79e/19ca0e35378d7c2d?lnk=gst&q=color+%5Cw#19ca0e35378d7c2d What I have not found anywhere is either a pointer to documentation that actually fixes the problem (sorry for being redundant but the instructions in the FAQ do *not* fix this problem), or an acknowledgment that there is a problem in bash. Thanks, - PW (rather than quote my entire previous post here's a link: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/9da7e81b060d77d4 )
