Establishing Proper Line Wrapping

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> Sounds like a broken prompt setting - how do you generate your prompt, and
> are you properly using \[ when you need it for example?

Marc,

   In ~/.bashrc:

COLOR1="\[\033[1;35m\]"
COLOR2="\[\033[1;36m\]"
COLOR3="\[\033[1;32m\]"
COLOR4="\[\033[0m\]" 
PS1="[$COLOR2\u$COLOR4@$COLOR1\h $COLOR3\w$COLOR4]\\$ "

> Are you sure you are setting TERM to rxvt-unicode and not another
> terminal?

   Yep:

   In /etc/DIR_COLORS

TERM rxvt
TERM rxvt-unicode

   In /usr/share/terminfo/r

rxvt           rxvt-color
rxvt+pcfkeys   rxvt-cygwin
rxvt-16color   rxvt-cygwin-native
rxvt-256color  rxvt-unicode
rxvt-88color   rxvt-unicode-256color
rxvt-basic     rxvt-xpm

Rich