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Re: first line overwritten in Bash
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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