Chet Ramey wrote: > Jim Paris wrote: > > The cursor positioning in the prompt is sometimes wrong, > > depending on the contents of PS1 and the locale. > > > > Repeat-By: > > > > With this command, the cursor is positioned after the '5', as expected: > > > > env -i LC_CTYPE=en_US PS1='\[\e[0m\]12345' INPUTRC=/dev/null bash --norc > > --noprofile > > > > > > With this command, the cursor is incorrectly positioned after the > > '1': > > > > env -i LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 PS1='\[\e[0m\]12345' INPUTRC=/dev/null bash > > --norc --noprofile > > It's not really the locale per se, but the horizontal scroll mode that > needs attention. (I didn't really think anybody used it anymore, but > you forced it when you started bash without TERM defined.) Try the > attached patch.
Yes, it fixes this, thanks. The real problem I'm trying to track down is that the cursor is sometimes put in the wrong position after a reverse-isearch. This was what I came up with when trying to reproduce in a simple test case. I'll run with the new patch and see if that helps my other problem too (which can be a bit tricky to reproduce). -jim
