Line breaks in bash

[Larry Hall]

At 06:34 PM 4/22/2004, you 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?


Works fine for me.


>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, apparently.  I could reproduce your problem using your prompt.


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