Re: "CR" in PS1, doesn't reset "col" to 0

[Mike Stroyan]

On 1/24/07, Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> wrote:
> I recently changed my PS1 prompt to set the title and icon text in the
> tty frame window to "user@host";
...
> Of course it doesn't know how "non-printing" (or text that doesn't
> generate a physical position as in the set-icon+title function).  So I
> thought that it should be able to understand that a "CR" would
> return/reset the column to zero.  That way it could correctly compute
> what column it was in.

Bash can know about non-printing characters.  Check the "PROMPTING"
section in "man bash"-

            \[     begin  a sequence of non-printing characters,
which could be used to embed a terminal control sequence into the
prompt
             \]     end a sequence of non-printing characters

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Mike Stroyan
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