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Re: [Bug-readline] miscalculation with wrapped prompt line


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] miscalculation with wrapped prompt line
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:10:16 -0500
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On 12/10/15 2:00 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
> Consider a long bash prompt, with a dummy escape sequence:
> PS1=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPGRSTUVWXYZ"[\#]"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPGRSTUVWXYZ:"\[\e[0m\]"
> 
> Now create a terminal emulator window (xterm works); make it narrow
> (say 50 characters); type Enter (to get a fresh bash prompt).
> Now type ctrl-R.  I see:
> 
> (reverse-i-search)`': RSTU

Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next version of readline.

Chet

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