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Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -g -O2 uname output: Linux cyclops4 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:47:07 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Machine Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Bash Version: 4.0 Patch Level: 28 Release Status: release Description: With a color prompt, long directory names, and/or long command lines, scrolling through the command history often causes the cursor to be in the wrong position, the prompt to loose color and remnants of previous long commands to remain on the line with short commands. Repeat-By: * This line is placed in ~/.bashrc: PS1='[e[31;2m]w$[e[0m] ' * A terminal window is opened with system default parameters (xterm and gnome-terminal have the same behavior). * xwininfo indicates that its geometry is: 80x24-80-85 (the window width changes the prompt-cursor-command line behavior). *The following is one of many sequences that cause the problem. * The following commands have been executed (prompts are shown here as the text from first character to the first $) : ~$ pwd|wc -c 14 (******* response to command*********) ~$ mkdir -p /tmp/Classification_Parameter_Estimation_and_State_Estimation_An_Engineering_Approach_Using_MATLAB/ ~$ cd /tmp/Classification_Parameter_Estimation_and_State_Estimation_An_Engineering_Approach_Using_MATLAB/ ********** Now Command History is Scrolled Back With Up Arrow. Result: /tmp/Classification_Parameter_Estimation_and_State_Estimation_An_Engineering_Approach_Using_MATLAB$ pwd|wc -cwd|wc -c 99 (******* response to command*********) ****Remnant of another command line (above) --^
