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Re: Line breaks in bash
- From: AJ Reins <tbisp at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:37:18 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash
--- Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when
> it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an
> example.
>
> C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80
> characters bash
> does som
> ething like this?
>
> Now set my prompt to the hostname as
> "\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33mC09-272-A:\e[0m". Could this be causing the problem?
Yes. You have a \[ to indicate non-printing characters without the closing \].
> --
> I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
Me too! (sorry about that! (acutally I'm not, but lets not quibble over tribbles!))
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