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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Stephane Chazelas wrote:

> In that new one, I tried to address the tab/newline issue.
> It tries to calculate the length of the last line of the prompt,
> it may fail if PS1 contains %%s or %{ %{ ... %} %} or if two
> consecutive expansions of PS1 may not generate the same thing

There's some code in Functions/Prompts/prompt_bart_setup in the function
prompt_bart_precmd that computes the width of prompt strings.  It's been
specialized to expect to compute only the width of the first line of a
two-line PS1, but it shouldn't be hard to adapt.