Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i586 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2 -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2/../readline-5.2 Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -Wall -pipe -g -fPIE -fprofile-use uname output: Linux yaguchi 2.6.25.6-jen67-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT 2008-05-26 15:23:05 +0200 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Machine Type: i586-suse-linux-gnu (opensuse 10.3)
Bash Version: 3.2 Patch Level: 25 Release Status: release Description:/Repeat-By: Having a prompt with color definitions makes readline reposition the cursor wrong on many occassions. Here is one of them. export PS1="\[\e[1;30m\]\A \[\e[0;32m\]\h:\w \[\e[1;37m\]>\[\e[0m\] "; (type the following verbatim) echo word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 (now hit keys Alt-4 Alt-b to move the cursor 4 words to the left) The cursor will be repositioned to a column inside the prompt area instead of the designated position. I suppose this is due to readline using (or bash passing in) strlen(PS1) instead of strlen(stripescapecodes(PS1)). Environment: xterm-229, libreadline-5.2
