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• 17 Jan 09
  

  Keith Yang

  git vcs hg svn zsh shell

• 26 Nov 08
  

  Kilroy Smith

  versioncontrol svn shell git prompt bash zsh

• 18 Sep 08
  

  Antti Kaihola

  Excellent tidbit of information useful when creating bash prompts with color!

  bash prompt

  • bash miscalculates the length of a prompt if it includes non-printing escape sequences, and then makes a mess of wrapping input lines. You have to put \[ and \] around those sequences.

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