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Re: bash prompt problem - some more observations


On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Robinson, Mark on 8/22/2005 1:50 AM:
> > g'day
> >
> > I've been noodling around with the extra-character-bash-prompt-problem.
> > It appears to manifest itself (for me at least) when I have title-bar
> > info in my prompt, e.g.

It's actually triggered by any special characters in the prompt,
regardless of whether \[ and \] are present (not surprising, as this is a
prompt length computation bug).

> Which version of bash?  Have you tried bash-3.0-11 yet?  You may want to
> report this upstream, at bug-bash AT gnu.org, since I am at a loss as to
> what else to do for this particular bug.

Bash 3.0-11 on my machine manifests the bug.  I'll try to report it
upstream later...
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