On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <c...@freeshell.org> wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Chet Ramey wrote: > >> > >> > This is nothing new; it happens in all versions of bash: >> > >> > printf "Enter something: " >> > read -e whatever >> > >> > Press a key, then cursor left (or ^A); the cursor moves to the >> > beginning of the line, over "E" instead of over the character just >> > entered. >> >> This isn't a bug; that's where readline thinks the cursor is. > > Why would it think that? It's wrong. > >> If you want to use a prompt, use `read -p'. > > I like to write portable scripts; read -p is not portable.
well, read -e is not more portable than read -p afaict > -- > Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> > =================================================================== > Author: > Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) > > >
