Bug#537525: rxvt-unicode: readline confused by escape sequences in prompt

2009-07-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ian> Again, roxterm handles this correctly, irrespective of locale, so Ian> it's not a bash or readline problem. I was wrong: roxterm has the same problem. Not linux tty, though, even in UTF-8 mode. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8

Bug#537525: rxvt-unicode: readline confused by escape sequences in prompt

2009-07-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Package: rxvt-unicode Version: 9.05-1+lenny1 Severity: normal I set my bash PS1 variable like this: bold_start=`tput bold` bold_end=`tput sgr0` PS1='\['${bold_start}'\...@\h:\w$\['${bold_end}'\] ' Note the \[ and \] , which are exactly what bash documentation recommends to tell readline about no