OS X Terminal text stacking on top of itself

Question

I\'m encountering a strange issue in the Terminal app in Mac OS X Lion. When I enter in a long line of text that should wrap to the next line when it reaches the edge of the

Answer 1

With the guidance of hamstergene I was able to figure out how to make it play nice. Using this Geek Stuff guide and this It's Me Tommy tutorial, I was able to define how I wanted my PS1 text to display. Changing this to something much more simplified eliminated the weird overlapping text issue I was running into.

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I simply edited my .bash_profile and added the following line:

export PS1="[\u@\h] > ";

Then I went and changed the window colors for good measure because I can.