Chet Ramey wrote: > OK, I figured out why I couldn't reproduce it. My locale is always set > to en_US.UTF-8 (multibyte), and the problem only manifests itself when > in non-multibyte mode. This is why I originally asked for your locale -- > that was the missing piece. It should be pretty easy to fix.
And it was easy to fix. Jay Freeman did a great job of identifying the problem spot. Please try the attached patch; it works for me. I also need to add locale information to `bashbug'; I can tackle the problem of making sure people actually use it to report bugs later. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
*** ../bash-4.0-patched/lib/readline/display.c 2009-01-04 14:32:32.000000000 -0500 --- lib/readline/display.c 2009-04-14 14:00:18.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 1773,1777 **** adjust col_lendiff based on the difference between _rl_last_c_pos and _rl_screenwidth */ ! if (col_lendiff && (_rl_last_c_pos < _rl_screenwidth)) #endif { --- 1773,1777 ---- adjust col_lendiff based on the difference between _rl_last_c_pos and _rl_screenwidth */ ! if (col_lendiff && ((MB_CUR_MAX == 1 || rl_byte_oriented) || (_rl_last_c_pos < _rl_screenwidth))) #endif {