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Re: exiting vim changes background colour of console
Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I do not remember anything about this now, but comparing to my current
> PS1 I can see that I has a \] after the last m. I have
>
> PS1=\[\033[32;47m\w >\033[0m\]
That's incorrect. The \[ and \] are to be used only to delineate
nonprinting sequences. If you include "\w >" inside them you will
really muck up your prompt if you type a command wider than one screen.
PS1="\[\033[32;47m\]\w >\[\033[0m\]"
Brian
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