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From: Luciano <lucianoav AT gmx DOT net>
Subject: Re: first line overwritten in Bash
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:22:19 +0000 (UTC)
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I see.
Your suggestion works, but it's clear that I have to read (even) more 
documentation. That thing is huuuge...

Thanks.
Luciano ES
Santos, SP - Brasil

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Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com> wrote in
news:5 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20030411175636 DOT 0261b920 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com: 

> You're not signalling BASH (and the readline library it uses)
> which portions of that prompt do not produce characters on the
> screen. That causes it to lose track of where the cursor really
> is when the prompt is printed. Any non-printing sequence in PS1
> should be surrounded by \[ and \]. See the PROMPTING section of
> the BASH manual for more details. 


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