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Re: bash 3.0-7 bug - prompt length with non-printing characters
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:19:50 -0700
- Subject: Re: bash 3.0-7 bug - prompt length with non-printing characters
- References: <048601c58582$58876c80$6508a8c0@chimaera>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Max Bowsher wrote:
> I have a prompt ($PS1) which includes non-printing characters. They are
> enclosed with \[ .... \] so that bash knows not to count them in discovering
> the length of the prompt in order to position the cursor correctly.
Yes, this has already been reported.
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00259.html>
Brian
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