bug in bash handling of PS1 prompt

2005-06-22 Thread skt
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i386 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: i386-redhat-linux-gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONF

directory colors on AIX

2005-06-22 Thread ray . mccaffity
bash --version GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. I am running AIX 5.2. I copied the /etc/DIR_COLORS from a linux box, and added the alias ls='ls --color=auto' to my .bashrc file. It mostly seems to work. The colors fo

Part 2 follow-up

2005-06-22 Thread ray . mccaffity
I realized I didn't send you this in my first email. From: root To: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)] Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: powerpc OS: aix5.2.0.0 Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPRO

Re: ESC t not ready for Chinese

2005-06-22 Thread Chet Ramey
Dan Jacobson wrote: > If I put the cursor between the last two items, > $ search 鼓山 福州 > and type ESC t, I get > $ s 福州 鼓山earch > Whereas in real emacs, I correctly get > $ search 福州 鼓山 I did some work after 3.0 was released to make forward-word and backward-word work correctly with multibyt

Re: Bash 3 and $HOME abbreviated with a tilde.

2005-06-22 Thread Chet Ramey
J.O. Aho wrote: > > Got a bit irritated when updating my Gentoo boxes to use bash 3.00.16, > the \W and \w options for the prompt now replaces the home directory > name to tilde, I hope I'm not the only one who wants to see the home > directory name instead of the tilde. > > Wouldn't it be possib

Re: bash doesn't compile when configured with --disable-bang-history

2005-06-22 Thread Chet Ramey
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu > > Bash Version: 3.0 > Patch Level: 0 > Release Status: release > > Description: > It is not possible to selectively disable the history expansion with >--disable-bang-history Fixed, thanks. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Re: Clearing window (^L) messes up command line

2005-06-22 Thread Chet Ramey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i686 > OS: cygwin > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin' > -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='

Re: wait: mention PID must be a child of this shell

2005-06-22 Thread Chet Ramey
Dan Jacobson wrote: > $ help wait > doesn't mention that PID must be a child of this shell. > Nor does it advise how to wait if PID is not a child of this shell. There's no way to do this, you know. Since the underlying plumbing is not there, there's no need to mention the limitation. Chet -- `

wait: mention PID must be a child of this shell

2005-06-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ help wait doesn't mention that PID must be a child of this shell. Nor does it advise how to wait if PID is not a child of this shell. User wanted to do noffle --f & (wait $!; noffle -f) & for better or worse. User forced to use (noffle -f; noffle -f)& ___