Thanks for replying! On Saturday 13 December 2008 04:38:43 Chet Ramey wrote: > Halim Issa wrote: > > Type "one two three four five six seven eight" press ESCape and 7 B to go > > seven words back. This takes me right in the middle of the prompt while > > displaying (args:7) on the prompt. Once it removes the (args:7) info, ie > > when I press the "B", the cursor location is messed up and I end up in > > the middle of the prompt, instead of at the word "two" where I should be. > > I can't reproduce this with xterm, aterm, or Terminal on Mac OS X with > bash-3.2.48.
I've tried it some more, and have come across the same problem on both CentOS and Slackware, who have rather different systems. Both relate only to using escape sequences to change intensity only, not the full ansi-code for blink and colours and such... I have also tried in both xterm and konsole (KDE). If you need my .bashrc to check, please let me know. Since I've now seen this on multiple machines with the same result, maybe I'm to blame somewhere, but you've already seen the prompt command - nothing overly special except the ansi bold escape... > I have made display fixes for possibly-related problems displaying numeric > arguments; maybe those will fix your problem. They will come out with > bash-4.0. Great - I'm staying tuned for it! On a non-related note - there are still rumors around that bash 3.2 has some problems with `running backtick commands` compared to the new $(way to do it) - isn't this fixed in the first few patches of 3.2, or are there still compatibility issues from 3.1 to 3.2, and will there be similar changes moving onwards from 3.x to 4.0 ? Thanks again!
