Re: ansi escape sequences in prompt mess-up the command prompt

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Jarc
Antonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using ansi escape sequences in the prompt causes Bash to incorrectly > calculate the available width of the terminal and messes-up the command > prompt when a certain amount of characters are typed in. See entry E3 in the bash FAQ. paul

ansi escape sequences in prompt mess-up the command prompt

2005-11-06 Thread Antonis
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Using ansi escape sequences in the prompt causes Bash to incorrectly calculate the available width of the terminal and messes-up the command prompt when a certain amount of characters are typed in. For example type in a terminal the followi