bash prompt problem - some more observations
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Mon Aug 22 14:51:00 GMT 2005
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Robinson, Mark on 8/22/2005 1:50 AM:
> > g'day
> >
> > I've been noodling around with the extra-character-bash-prompt-problem.
> > It appears to manifest itself (for me at least) when I have title-bar
> > info in my prompt, e.g.
It's actually triggered by any special characters in the prompt,
regardless of whether \[ and \] are present (not surprising, as this is a
prompt length computation bug).
> Which version of bash? Have you tried bash-3.0-11 yet? You may want to
> report this upstream, at bug-bash AT gnu.org, since I am at a loss as to
> what else to do for this particular bug.
Bash 3.0-11 on my machine manifests the bug. I'll try to report it
upstream later...
Igor
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