Chet Ramey wrote:
> Jim Paris wrote:
> > The cursor positioning in the prompt is sometimes wrong,
> > depending on the contents of PS1 and the locale.
> >
> > Repeat-By:
> >
> > With this command, the cursor is positioned after the '5', as expected:
> >
> > env -i LC_CTYPE=en_US PS1=
Dear bash help list members. I'm in serious need of help;).
My problem deals with bash auto completion and the fact that it seems
to be a little random in addition to the fact that I run my own
distro, makes it a little hard to explain, as well, so bear with me.
Basically, I've been building an
On Jun 16, 9:38 pm, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > It seems okay to leave PATH alone to me. Why set it at all?
I agree. If as a user I care to set my environment in some specific
way, I expect other programs to honour my settings.
If all my scripts were resetting PATH and hardcoding
I agree with you that it's better to have an extra command. I can work
around that behavior.
I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand the following sentence:
history -s will not delete the previous history entry before pushing the
new entry if it's added to a previous entry as part of a compoun
> I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand the following sentence:
>
> history -s will not delete the previous history entry before pushing the
> new entry if it's added to a previous entry as part of a compound command.
Readline (and the shell, really) works a line at a time. When a line
is re
