How to solve this problem with a 'tuned' prompt in ZSH?

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Published on 2010-03-24T13:33:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 13:43 UTC
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I have an adjusted prompt in my ZSH-configuration. Main feature is, that this prompt is colored red, so that I can easily it distinguish from the outputs of programs. My prompt is defined as follows:

PROMPT=$'\e[0;31m%n@%m:%~> \e[0m'

This works mostly fine, but sometimes my cursor switches to another position on tab-completion and some characters are left behind on the screen and mangle up the commandline. That is a little annoyance, but if someone knows a solution for this, I would appreciate it.

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