On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Andrew Sayers wrote:
> It's possible to work around this for a whole script:
>
> foo() {
> echo -e "\033[;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0m"
> }
> PS1='\[$(foo)'\]>'
If $(foo) were to emit some actual printable characters, won't this make
bash ignore them when calculating line lengths?
> As a fan of colourful prompts, I'd be very happy if you found a way
> around this for parts of a script. But as a fan of fast prompts, I'd
> prefer not to call __git_ps1 more than once :)
I don't think there is any way around this, besides patching bash to be
intelligent and determine which PS1 characters are printable itself without
relying on \[ and \].
-Kevin Ballard
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