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:
You need to use \[ and \] around the non-printing characters -- see the man page.