Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20040423003718.93970.qmail@web21205.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:37:18 -0700 (PDT) From: AJ Reins Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes --- 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!)) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/