Yup, thanks guys, I found out the exact source is the prompt setting: This does not work: export PS1="\e[32m\w$\e[0m " This works fine: export PS1="\w$ "
I inherited this bashrc, so the first settings are hieroglyphics to me. Seeing as I don't care much about colour anyway, I'll just remove it. Thanks so much! "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ImranKhan wrote: > >> This falls in the annoyance category. Anyone have problems using scroll >> back history with commands that are long and split over muliple lines in >> the >> terminal? > > No problem at all here. This is usually caused by improper use (or lack > of) \[ and \] in the prompt to tell bash which characters are > nonprinting. > > Brian > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
