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Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue

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  Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue Алексей Шилин <rootlexx@mail.ru> - 2019-11-26 18:38 +0300

#15655 — Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue

В Вт, 26/11/2019 в 07:35 -0600, Dennis Williamson пишет:
> You have printable characters enclosed. For example, \u. _Each_
> sequence of unprintable characters needs to be separately enclosed
> _without_ enclosing the printable ones.

They're all part of the escape sequence. Try:

printf '\e]0;hello@world /and/beyond\a'

> The first part of your prompt is what needs to be corrected. The
> latter part after "debian_chroot" is correct.

See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterm-Title-3.html#ss3.1

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