bash prompt prevents long commands from wrapping onto a new line about starship HOT 8 OPEN

You are running a very old version of starship can you try updating to a more recent version and see if it is still an issue.

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Still an issue on starship 1.18.1 (this is the version I got from brew upgrade starship)

$ starship --version
starship 1.18.1
branch:
commit_hash:
build_time:2024-03-24 09:51:46 +00:00
build_env:rustc 1.76.0 (07dca489a 2024-02-04) (Homebrew),

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I have the same issue on linux with 1.18.1, works fine on apple silicon on the same version

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same problem for ubuntu bash

system

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic

bash version

GNU bash, version 4.4.20(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

starship verrsion

starship 1.19.0
branch:master
commit_hash:
build_time:2024-05-15 17:09:04 +00:00
build_env:rustc 1.78.0 (9b00956e5 2024-04-29),

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Same issue with starship 1.19.0 on macOS.

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@chrispyles @andytom I think the reason could be the use of nu-ansi-term which doesn't close the ansi escape sequences like described eg here or here. All colours end with <ESC>[0m and that seems cause issues with the determination of the remaining size of the terminal. You can test this if you temporarily set your PS1 to an orange right angle bracket like export PS1='\033[38;5;208m❱\033[0m' and you will get the same behaviour as described here because both, the start and the end of the color miss the \].

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nu-ansi-term does not wrap the ANSI-sequences, but starship does.

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If anyone wants to reproduce this, you can create a minimal ubuntu 22.04 docker container with starship prompt:

docker run -it ubuntu:22.04 /bin/bash -c "apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl && curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh -s -- --yes && echo 'eval \"\$(starship init bash)\"' >> ~/.bashrc && /bin/bash"

Here's a video showing the wrapping issue:

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