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How do I fix my colour bash prompt wrapping?

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Mar 15, 20264873 views
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I have defined a bash prompt (using PROMPT_FUNCTION) like so: In general, this gives me a multi-line prompt that displays some hg status info as well as my current virtualenv, looking (without colour) like this: The problem is, this is screwing with the calculation of the length of the prompt (I th…

Error Output

function get_hg_prompt_prefix() {
    local APPLIED_COLOR=$1; shift
    local UNAPPLIED_COLOR=$1; shift
    local ALERT_COLOUR=$1; shift
    local TE…

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uses to determine the "displayed length": text between those two escapes is considered unprintable and not counted in the total length; everything else is. There seems to be a problem with your variables: doesn't actually include an ESC character, s…

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