Re: bash,TITLEBAR, and line wrapping

[Peder Stray]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Ian A. Tegebo wrote:

> I'm having line-wrapping problems.
>
> I've set some bash variables to achieve titlebar and hardstatus
> updating:
>
> <code>
> case $TERM in
> xterm*)
>    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;address@hidden: ${PWD}\007"'
> ;;
> screen*)
>    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -n -e "\033k\033\134"'
>    TITLEBAR='\033]0;address@hidden   \w \007'
>    PS1=${TITLEBAR}'\[\033[1;34m\][\!]\$ \[\033[0m\]'
> ;;
> esac
> </code>

you need to put \[ \] around the contents of $TITLEBAR, as this tells the 
shell it is text that wont show up in the terminal and thus wil not count 
in the calculation the prompts width.

        TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;address@hidden   \w \007\]'


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