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$PS1 doesn't appear to work the same after version 1.7
- From: <lynn at swcp dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 11:15:26 MDT
- Subject: $PS1 doesn't appear to work the same after version 1.7
- Reply-to: lynn at swcp dot com
I use the following to setup my $PS1 bash prompt:
PS1="\[\033]0;\w\007\033[32m\]\u@\h\[\033[36m \W\033[0m\]> "
This attempts to emit the username@hostname current_folder> (in color)
This still works on my Linux and Solaris boxes. It used to work under Cygwin,
but I believe that it began failing after the upgrade to 1.7. I am currently
at 1.7.5-1.
The problem arises when I use the keyboard up-arrow to scroll back to select a
previous command. The position of the command is incorrect and overwrites the
portions of the prompt.
PS1="\u@\h \W> " continues to work as expected.
There was a recent update effecting PS1 but it did not fix this problem.
Thanks.
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