bashpromptansi-escapeeol

Add newline if EOL not detected in bash prompt

Is there any way to preserve partial line in bash like zsh? My bash prompt messes up without newline and for printing other non-printable escape characters.

Thanks in advance!

I've tried PS1="\[\e[0m\]\n$PS1". But I think that's not a perfect solution. I just want to set my bash prompt to add newline if no EOL detected in previous output.

Solution

  • ##~/.local/bin/add_newline

    #!/usr/bin/bash

printf "\E[6n";read -sdR CURPOS; CURPOS=${CURPOS#*[}; C="${CURPOS#*;}"

[ "$C" -ne 1 ] && echo

    $ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/*

    ##~/.bashrc

    PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND}${PROMPT_COMMAND:+;} add_newline"

    Thanks @CharlesDuffy