Re: various buggy behaviors in zsh out-of-the-box on Suse

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Mats Ahlgren wrote:
> # Prompt
> PS1="
> $bg[black]$fg[blue]%B%#%b $fg[white]%B"
>
>  Apparently using the variables $bg[...] and $fg[...], etc., seems to
>  be causing this bug. Might you or anyone have any insight as to why?

You need to tell the shell that the characters in those variables
don't move the cursor:  it has no knowledge of terminal escapes so
assumes every character moves the cursor one character to the right.
Try:

PS1="
%{$bg[black]$fg[blue]%}%B%#%b %{$fg[white]%}%B"

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