Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:30:35AM EDT, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Chris Jones wrote: >>> Not sure whether this is a bug in my version of bash, but I copied over >>> my colored PS1 prompts from debian etch - regular user & root - and some >>> convenient keyboard actions are misbehaving. After retrieving a command >>> from the history via a CTRL-R, an ensuing CTRL-A moves the cursor to >>> somewhere in the middle of the prompt and CTRL-E is short of the >>> retrieved command's end by some ten characters. > > [..] > >>> $ bash --version >>> GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) >>> Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> I can't reproduce this behavior with bash-3.2.49. > > Is there anything that happened between 3.2.39 & 3.2.49 that might > account for this, or would you suspect a problem with my setup?
I would assume that one of the patches addresses this problem. > Or should I run a test with a more current version of bash and if I > can't recreate, forget about it? You should always test against the most current version. In your case, you can test against more recent versions of bash-3.2 or bash-4.0. If the work to fix the problem has already been done and released, why not take advantage of it? 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/
