Strange behavior with PS1 prompt

Petrus de Calguarium kwhiskerz at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 06:44:44 UTC 2009


Cameron Simpson wrote:

> The \[ and \] begin and end a series of non-printable
> characters. This tells bash not to count those
> characters when determining the length of the
> prompt. So the color escape sequences are wrapped
> in \[ and \].
By Jove, you are right! No wonder I have seen the 
problem on and off over the years! I just tested this 
solution and it appears to work!

> This is all beautiful, but I think you need to use 
single quotes instead of doubles.
So far, it appears that double quotes work.




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