[Konsole-devel] [Bug 53418] cursor jumps to the first column before reaching end of line

wjl at icecavern.net wjl at icecavern.net
Sun Jun 22 14:03:21 UTC 2003


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------- Additional Comments From wjl at icecavern.net  2003-06-22 16:03 -------
This isn't a bug. =) 
 
See this howto for more info on how to correctly create color prompts with  
bash. As was mentioned, you have to use \[ and \] around control characters so  
that bash can count characters correctly.  
  
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/  
  
Especially see:  
  
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/nonprintingchars.html  
  
Which specially talks about this issue.


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