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LOGAN

Reputation: 502

Terminal line has broken itself when type long characters on OSX

I use Terminal very Often which mean is i have situation that i have to put long phrase for executing command from Terminal to App. I have no idea when this line sucking( or breaking) had been happening now. is there any solution to fix this without sizing of terminal?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 1384

Answers (1)

Yoric
Yoric

Reputation: 1784

Based on our discussion, you should edit your ~/.bash_profile and replace the following line:

export PS1="\u@\h \W[\033[32m]\$(parse_git_branch)[\033[00m] $ "

with this line:

export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "

Then open a new terminal window, and try if it's any better.

When customizing the PS1 variable, you need to surround non-printable character with \[ and \] or else bash doesn't calculate the length of the prompt correctly, hence the overlapping text with the cursor.

UPDATE

I would just replace this block of code:

parse_git_branch() {
  git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* (.*)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1="\u@\h \W[\033[32m]\$(parse_git_branch)[\033[00m] $ "

with this line:

export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\] \[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\] (\$(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep '^*' | colrm 1 2)) \$ "

Or, if you want to stick with your solution, replace it with this correction: 

parse_git_branch() {
  git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}

export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "

UPDATE2

Replace this line:

export PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -n \(\$(date +%H:%M:%S)\)\ "

With this line:

export PROMPT_COMMAND=update_terminal_cwd

Now your terminal should be OK again! If you want to add the date and time in front of your prompt, Then edit this line:

export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "

like this:

export PS1="($(date +%H:%M:%S)) \u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "

Upvotes: 2

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