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Re: Line breaks in bash
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:48:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash
- References: <c69h99$uh2$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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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