I have added the following line to /etc/profile:

PS1="\e[0;32m$PS1\e[0;0m"

Now I have a colored prompt. But if a command is longer then a line, there
is no linebreak. It just jumps back to the beginning (carriage return) of
the current line.

In wish manpage are the escape sequences described?

Sebastian
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:07:58 -0000, Sebastian Stein <seb_stein@gmx.de> wrote:
> I have added the following line to /etc/profile:
>
> PS1="\e[0;32m$PS1\e[0;0m"
>
> Now I have a colored prompt. But if a command is longer then a line, there
> is no linebreak. It just jumps back to the beginning (carriage return) of
> the current line.

I found the solution. The correct line must be:

PS1="\[\e[0;32m\]$PS1\[\e[0;0m\]"

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Sebastian Stein wrote:
> I have added the following line to /etc/profile:
>
> PS1="\e[0;32m$PS1\e[0;0m"
>
> Now I have a colored prompt. But if a command is longer then a line, there
> is no linebreak. It just jumps back to the beginning (carriage return) of
> the current line.
>
> In wish manpage are the escape sequences described?

I do it like this and still occasionally the line doesn't wrap
properly though not very often. This gives me a red prompt for
root and a yellow prompt for users and also shows the CWD.

elif [ "`id -un`" = "root" ]; then
PS1='\[\033[1;31m\]\h:\w\$\[\033[0m\] ';
else
PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\h:\w\$\[\033[0m\] ';
fi

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