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In article <9209060053.AA02428@arissoft.com> john@arissoft.COM writes:
>I use GNU Bash, version 1.12.9, and the terminal program I use is Stuart
>2.4 on a NeXT, which has title-bar-setting escape sequences that are a
>superset of those understood by Xterm.  A problem I was experiencing was
>that the Readline library used by Bash doesn't know what part of the prompt
>is actually visible.  So, if I have a big, nasty PS1 variable that puts
>lots of things in the title bar, Readline decides I've hit the 80th column
>and breaks the line way too early.

For title bar escape sequences, why not use PROMPT_COMMAND?  For instance,
my .bashrc has

  xtitle() {
    if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
      echo -ne "\e]1;$1\a"
      echo -ne "\e]2;$2\a"
    else
      echo -ne "\e]0;$1\a"
    fi
  }

  cd_xtitle() {
    xtitle "$USER@$HOST" "$USER@$HOST  $PWD"
  }

  [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ] && PROMPT_COMMAND=cd_xtitle

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