Thanks for the hint. I agree with your analysis, but that still would not
explain why the continuation overrides the begining of the same line
instead of going to the next line.
I think I'll go for the two-lines prompt. If you have a Stack Overflow
account, you can post your answer and I will accep
I guess that R does not know about ANSI sequences, and it calculates the
width of the prompt including the characters in the sequences. You cannot
do much about this, except maybe use a prompt that has two lines. You can
put the colored text and whatever you like in the first line, and the
second l
When R is run interactively in a terminal which supports colors, it is
possible to use ANSI escape sequences in order to put colors in the prompt,
such as
options(prompt = "\033[0;31mThis is red\033[0m> ")
Unfortunately, something goes wrong because for long command lines, the
line continuation o
