Line breaks in bash

Fri Apr 30 21:53:00 GMT 2004

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On 2004年4月29日, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>From: Andrew DeFaria
>>>Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM
>>>To: cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com
>>>Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash
>>>>>>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
>>>"\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33mC09-272-A:\e[0m". Could this be causing the problem?
>>>>>>>>Maybe you are missing a \] in the prompt. What you really want is something
>>like this:
>>"\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33m\]C09-272-A:\[\e[0m\]"
>>>>Placing a "\" after the "\e" and before the "[01" and "0m" causes those 
functions to fail.
>>Any sequence of non-printable characters should be enclosed in '\['..'\]'
>for bash to not count it towards the current length of the line.
>>Fixed my prompt to "\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33mC09-272-A:\e[0m\]" however the 
problem is the same. The trick is to enclose *only* the unprintable 
characters thus my final resulting PS1 string is: 
"\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33m\]C09-272-A:\[\e[0m\]"
>>>>(What are \w and \a doing? man bash says that they should be the current
>>working directory and a bell, but they don't act like that in this prompt
>>for me.)
>>>>>>'\e]0;' will set the window title to the string that follows it (up to a
>'\a', so that's the terminator). So, the above should set the window
>title to the current working directory, and the prompt will be displayed
>as "C09-272-A:". If you wanted the current working directory displayed in
>the prompt, you could use "\[\e[01;33m\]C09-272-A:\w:\[\e[0m\]" instead.
>	Igor
>>Some people like the directory in the prompt - I like it in the title. 
Directory paths tend to be long, leaving you less and less space to type 
the command in. Also, being a sys adm of many machines I'm often more 
concerned with which machine I'm operating on.
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