Bug 143945 - Color prompt causes bad line wraps
Summary: Color prompt causes bad line wraps
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bash
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL: www.mephisto.ma.cx/mephisto/bash-bug.png
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-02 11:40 UTC by Mephisto
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-01-02 12:24:04 UTC
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Description Mephisto 2005-01-02 11:40:46 UTC
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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:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-01-02 12:24:04 UTC
You need to use \[ and \] around the non-printing characters -- see the man page.


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