I tracked it down to an Ncurses change.
Bash/readline attempts to move the cursor left by calling Ncurses (libtinfo)
function 'tputs' with ASCII BS (ctl-H) as the argument. The function of
'tputs' is to write stuff to the terminal with delays added, as required by
early printing terminals.
In th
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions
-fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches
-specs=/usr/l
Hi,
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 8:51 PM, corr...@goncalo.pt wrote:
>
> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
> Description:
> When we rename the current working directory, $PWD doesn't get updated
> as it would as it would if we just did a simple "cd directory". Because
> of t
