Cameron Simpson wrote: > The \[ and \] begin and end a series of non-printable > characters. This tells bash not to count those > characters when determining the length of the > prompt. So the color escape sequences are wrapped > in \[ and \]. By Jove, you are right! No wonder I have seen the problem on and off over the years! I just tested this solution and it appears to work! > This is all beautiful, but I think you need to use single quotes instead of doubles. So far, it appears that double quotes work. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines