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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: "'Andrew DeFaria'" <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Line breaks in bash
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:49:17 -0400
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Maybe you are missing a \] in the prompt.  What you really want is something
like this:
"\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33m\]C09-272-A:\[\e[0m\]"

(What are \w and \a doing?  man bash says that they should be the current
working directory and a bell, but they don't act like that in this prompt
for me.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew DeFaria
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash

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?

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