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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:57:47 -0500
From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
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To: Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT teknowledge DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Console width
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Randall R Schulz wrote:

> David,
>
> The typical reason for this is that your prompt contains characters that
> don't directly render onto the line. BASH (well, the readline library it
> uses) keeps track of where the cursor is on the line (whose length it knows
> via the tty driver) so it can wrap the input. If the output from the shell
> prompt string contains, say, 18 bytes but ends up moving the cursor only 8
> spaces from the left margin, then readline will thing the cursor is 10
> bytes further to the right than it really is and will prematurely wrap the
> line as you type.

I should have confirmed earlier, sorry.  Yes, this applies.  I'll mess around
with it a bit.  Thanks.
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