Lasse Kärkkäinen wrote: > Steps to reproduce: (using UTF-8 locales) > > $ export PS1="\[\e]2;test Ä and Ö here\a\]prompt>" > prompt>abcdefgh # Enter some alphabets and press Home > ^ Cursor goes here, instead of > ^ here where it should go. > > Add more UTF-8 letters as non-printable characters in PS1 and the offset > from the correct position gets bigger. Here it was two characters > because of two "extra" bytes in the UTF-8 put in there. > > I noticed that you have to type a right amount of characters to make > Home key use the calculated prompt length. abcdefgh seems to work in > this case, but if the prompt is modified, you may need to type more or > less than that to see the effect. > > Tested with versions: > GNU bash, version 4.0.0(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Can you reproduce this with bash-4.0 with all 24 patches applied? I still have more testing to do, but I haven't been able to reproduce it on my Mac OS X development machines. 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/
