color & customize bash prompt wrecks line length

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I’m using this in my .bashrc to colorize my bash prompt. For some reason though it is shortening the number of columns (line length) that I can type. Like about 60 characters even though I have a big maximized konsole window. Same thing happens in a real tty. Any ideas?

prbold=$(tput bold)
red=$(tput setaf 1)
green=$(tput setaf 2)
blue=$(tput setaf 4)
yellow=$(tput setaf 3)
magenta=$(tput setaf 5)
reset=$(tput sgr0)

PS1="$prbold$red\u$reset$prbold@$blue\h$reset $prbold$magenta\w$reset$prbold]$green>$reset "

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I found the answer in Arch wiki. Its working now rotfl!:

**Note: **Wrapping the tput output in \ ] is recommended by the Bash man page. This helps Bash ignore non-printable characters so that it correctly calculates the size of the prompt.