Line breaks in bash

[AJ Reins]

--- 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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