[SOLVED]Bash cli input truncated after customizing prompt with colors

Question

Here is my customized prompt (two lines) in ~/.bashrc (colors defined):
PS1="${CYAN}┌─${NC}\u@\h ${LIGHTBLUE}\w${NC}\n${CYAN}└─{${NC}\@${CYAN}}──${LIGHTCYAN}>${NC} "
It looks like this:
┌─ssri@host ~/Projects/cairo-dock
└─{10:26 AM}──>
Now, when I have a long entry (removing multiple packages, ie pacman removal of cairo-dock-bzr & cairo-dock-plugins-bzr), the input entry does not extend to the edge of my konsole window (80x33).  Insteads it stops halfway and continues onto the second line.  Since this prompt takes up two lines, the second line portion of the prompt is now overrunned and the entry is considerably garbled:
┌─ssri@host ~/Projects/cairo-dock
-plugins-bzr ─> pacman -R cairo-dock-bzr cairo-dock-
I'm wondering how I can extend keyboard entries towards 80 columns(?) and allow extended entries to continue onto a third line (rather than the second).
Thanks
Last edited by ssri (2010-06-26 21:03:27)

Answer 1

I didn't have "\]" from before
BEFORE
BLACK='\e[0;30m'
BLUE='\e[0;34m'
GREEN='\e[0;32m'
CYAN='\e[0;36m'
RED='\e[0;31m'
PURPLE='\e[0;35m'
BROWN='\e[0;33m'
LIGHTGRAY='\e[0;37m'
DARKGRAY='\e[1;30m'
LIGHTBLUE='\e[1;34m'
LIGHTGREEN='\e[1;32m'
LIGHTCYAN='\e[1;36m'
LIGHTRED='\e[1;31m'
LIGHTPURPLE='\e[1;35m'
YELLOW='\e[1;33m'
WHITE='\e[1;37m'
NC='\e[0m' # No Color
AFTER
BLACK='\e[0;30m\]'
BLUE='\e[0;34m\]'
GREEN='\e[0;32m\]'
CYAN='\e[0;36m\]'
RED='\e[0;31m\]'
PURPLE='\e[0;35m\]'
BROWN='\e[0;33m\]'
LIGHTGRAY='\e[0;37m\]'
DARKGRAY='\e[1;30m\]'
LIGHTBLUE='\e[1;34m\]'
LIGHTGREEN='\e[1;32m\]'
LIGHTCYAN='\e[1;36m\]'
LIGHTRED='\e[1;31m\]'
LIGHTPURPLE='\e[1;35m\]'
YELLOW='\e[1;33m\]'
WHITE='\e[1;37m\]'
NC='\e[0m\]' # No Color
RESULT = entries are still truncated
Last edited by ssri (2010-06-26 18:18:43)