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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:21:36 -0700
To: Chris Abbey <cabbey AT bresnanlink DOT net>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT teknowledge DOT com>
Subject: [patch] Re: odd bash wrapping due to ansi codes
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Chris,

Well, I cannot say that I like the new default prompt, but I'm a 
customization freak and tweak everything to my liking, anyway. But 
the thing that gets on my nerves after about 45 seconds is the "neon 
sign store window" effect of all that hiddeous colorization! I had to 
add a few lines to my .vimrc to turn search highlighting and "syntax 
coloring" off. I also added some macros to easily switch the 
colorization mode on and off when I want a glimpse of the colors to 
check for a runaway string.

Anyway, I really wrote to make sure you knew that the BASH behavior 
you're discovering is common to all BASH shells, not just Cygwin. I 
don't know for a fact, but that behavior might actually originate in 
the readline library.

Randall Schulz
Teknowledge Corp.
Palo Alto, CA USA


At 22:35 -0500 9/19/00, Chris Abbey wrote:
>At 00:08 9/20/00 +1000, Robert Praetorius wrote:
>>      I've found that bash is happier when I wrap ANSI (or ANSIesque)
>>escape and control sequences inside \[ . . . \].  To quote from the
>>bash man page:
>>
>>           \[   begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which
>>                could be used to embed a terminal control sequence
>>                into the prompt
>>           \]   end a sequence of non-printing characters
>
>
>BINGO! ... I've cleared up 95% of the problems...
>
>I've discovered that the default configuration is *far* less susceptible
>to these problems due to it's multi line nature and 80 column width.
>However I think this can be considered "doing the right thing" and will
>make the default configuration a better starting point for those who
>tweak the shell to feel more like their other systems.
>
>...




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