here's my prompt (it can be in either .bashrc or /etc/profile):

normally it looks like this:

however, if i type more than a certain number of characters it does this:

now if i make my terminal window bigger, it goes away (for a minute) and comes back a little later when i type more characters.

so my question is, what am i suppose to do fix this, looks like a simple problem for a die hard unix/linux bash user....

any takers ?

thanks much

- perry

my try

untested of course


PS1="\[\033[1;36m\] Get Slacked! \[\033[1;30m\] [ \[\033[1;35m\]\u\[\033[1;30m\] # \[\033[1;37m\]\w\[\033[1;30m\] ] \[\033[0m\]"

thanks for your post - it's nice when someone takes the time to make a stab at it...

well, looking at it from the outside, if at first there isn't an answer on LQ.org then there is always Google

any how, i managed to find out that man console_codes was the place to go albeit i had to try just about everything....

and this seems to do it:

try it out for yourself, it makes life interesting!

it's nice to the old ansi tricks we used to do in the world of dos still hanging around, this particular prompt will give you a colorful cursor different than the text colour as you type!

- perry

man bash itself seems to indicate that \[ and \] should be in pairs. To that extent, foo_bar_foo 's solution seems more generic and you might find that it is more prdectable in longer prompts.

I thought that these "escape" sequences were terminal specific. Nice to know that they are generic. Thanks for man_console-codes.

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