Bug 143945
| Summary: | Color prompt causes bad line wraps | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mephisto <mephisto> |
| Component: | bash | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | www.mephisto.ma.cx/mephisto/bash-bug.png | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-01-02 12:24:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041228 Firefox/1.0 Fedora/1.0-8 Description of problem: i recently set my command prompt to include colors, and i started noticing weird behavior after that. when i type text that exceeds a certain number of characters, the text starts over from the same line as where i was typing, instead of going to the next line, and it wraps way too early. i have included a link to a screenshot to make the problem more clear. i have set my prompt with the following line in .bashrc: [code]export PS1='[\033[32;1m\u\033[0m@\033[34;1m\h\033[0m \W]\$ '[/code] changing colors doesnt help, and the problem goes away immediately after removing the colors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bash-3.0-25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a shell 2. type "export PS1='[\033[32;1m\u\033[0m@\033[34;1m\h\033[0m \W]\$ '" 3. type text until the cursor wraps to the beginning of the line. Actual Results: see screenshot Expected Results: the text should continue until the end of the line, and move to the next line when it reaches that point. Additional info: