[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#470230: base: Multiple lines on terminal does not works

[Saulo Soares de Toledo]

Ok, I think this fix my problem, thanks.
But I have a new info about this: first than put colors on bash, the Debian
terminals already have this problem.
This was already fixed on repositories?

Thanks

Saulo

2008/3/11, Carsten Hey <c.hey at web.de>:
>
> close 470230
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> since Debian bug #53491 (where a user had the same problem as you) has
> been fixed, /usr/share/doc/bash/README.Debian.gz states:
>
> | 4. bash doesn't display prompts correctly.
> |
> | When using colors in prompts (or escape characters), then make sure
> | those characters are surrounded by \[ and \]. For more information
> | look at the man page bash(1) and search for PROMPTING.
>
> This is exactly what is missing in your /etc/profile.
>
> Additionally, the so called skeleton files, which are copied into the
> home directory of a new user have an example for a colored bash prompt,
> at least in current sid and when there is no other configuration files,
> i.e. from SuSE Linux.  So, in my opinion, the bash maintainer has done
> everything possible to document this.
>
> I did the required changes for you, please substitute the paragraph that
> sets $PS1 in your /etc/profile with the following to fix this
> misconfiguration and thus make multiple lines in bash work again:
>
> if [ "$PS1" ]; then
>   if [ "$BASH" ]; then
>     #PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
>     PS1="\[\033[01;31m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\033[0m\]"
>   else
>     if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
>       #PS1='# '
>       PS1="\[\033[01;31m\]# \[\033[0m\]"
>     else
>       #PS1='$ '
>       PS1="\[\033[01;31m\]$ \[\033[0m\]"
>     fi
>   fi
> fi
>
> I hope you are satisfied with this answer and I'm closing this bug now.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Carsten
>
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