Package: irb1.8 Version: 1.8.4-3 Severity: minor Hi
I configured irb to use a colored prompt using escape codes. But it seems to calculate the terminal width using the size of the prompt string, so the width is too short (e.g. in a 80x25 terminal the line breaks after 70 chars, and then continues at the beginning of the same line, writing over the prompt and already entered text. I guess escape codes should be stripped first, or maybe readline already has support for this? The same thing works fine with ipython, which also uses readline and has a colored prompt. Here's the relevant part from .irbrc (replace ^[ with escapes): IRB.conf[:IRB_RC] = proc do |conf| leader = " " * (conf.irb_name.length + conf.workspace.main.to_s.length + 3) conf.prompt_i = "%N[%m] ^[[1;34m>>>^[[0m " conf.prompt_s = leader + " ^[[1;32m..^[[0m " conf.prompt_n = conf.prompt_c = "%N[%m] ^[[1;32m..^[[0m " conf.return_format = " ^[[1;31m::^[[0m %s\n" end Cheers, Markus -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages irb1.8 depends on: ii libreadline-ruby1.8 1.8.4-3 Readline interface for Ruby 1.8 ii ruby1.8 1.8.4-3 Interpreter of object-oriented scr irb1.8 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
