This is my prompt, as specified in ~/.bashrc:
export PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;35m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ "
...that yields something like:
I would like to video-invert the colors of the luis@PortatilAsu part.
I have read on the net that the ANSI Code prefix for video inversion on any text string should be \033[7m, so I tested:
export PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;35m\]\[\033[7m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ "
(note the extra \033[7m and its position).
And the results seem to be fine:
But the prompt config seems rather awkward, and some docs say you can screw things if you don't put codes in the right place and have strange behaviors like cursor not steping, backspace going over the prompt itself, new lines not happening... etc.
Is the position I have choosen for the PS1 prompt variable all right? My prompt seems to be working OK right now (no problem with backspaces, line endings... etc); should it manifest such strange behaviors? Any basic rule (if it exists) to prevent that "strange behavior" of the prompt would be great, too.
