Bug#273999: gnome-terminal: Command line is trashed with colorized prompt

Sebastien Bacher Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>, 273999@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:13:20 +0200


Le mercredi 29 septembre 2004 =E0 10:39 +0200, Cedric Delfosse a =E9crit :
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 2.6.1-6
> Severity: important
>=20
> Put this into the PS1 variable:
> PS1=3D'\033[01;36m\u\033[m@\033[01;36m\h\033[m:\w\$ '
>=20
> Now start to type at the command line until you reach the border of the
> gnome-terminal window. You will see that what you type is wrapped before,=
 and
> without carriage return.

Hi,

For the record same behavior with xterm/aterm/Eterm, so perhaps not a
gnome-terminal bug ...


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher