[ILUG] Bash PS weirdness

[Niall]

Hi again,
	I'm full of questions today (but they're all interesting ones :-) ) 
I've been doing some time and compute intensive processing on a couple of
machines here, running up to 5 processes at a time. Each is giving output in
a shell, all of which were displaying on one monitor. This became a bit
confusing, in that I didn't know which shell was which process. So I
modified my .bashrc so that PS1 included the string to set the xterm title
bar e.g.

export PS1="\u@\h:\w >\e]2;\u@\h:\w^G"

This seems to be upsetting bash, in that when I enter a command such that
the length of the displayed prompt string in the shell + the command becomes
longer than 50 odd characters, bash sends a carriage return to the terminal.
You can carry on typing, and as long as you don't get too confused, you can
work away. This seems to be a bash problem, in that it happens in an xterm,
an rxvt and a konsole.

Any ideas, or is it bashbug time ?


Regards,


Niall