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Re: Issue, most possibly with new Readline


> > > >
> > > > Basically, when I hit [ESC] then fwd slash (/) to search through the
> > > > history, it throws my cursor back to get beginning of the line (on top
> > > > of the prompt) and acts weird.  This is in mrxvt, now if I do the same
> > > > in the basic cygwin bash shell i get this:
> > > >
> > > > v468929 <at> TRD-CAX40JXD ~> /
> > > > 
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Mike Stroyan proposed a patch for this upstream bug:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-02/msg00004.html

I verified that it solves the problem, and will be including a variant of
it in readline-5.1-3, in the next couple of days once I have time to
complete the packaging.

--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin readline maintainer

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