Re: bash,TITLEBAR, and line wrapping

[Ian A. Tegebo]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 07:06:29AM +0200, Peder Stray wrote:
> 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='\[\033]0;address@hidden   \w \007\]'
Worked like a charm, many thanks.

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Ian Tegebo