Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

Karl M karlm30@hotmail.com
Thu Dec 14 20:58:00 GMT 2006


Hi All...

I have also seen it on all my machines. I have a vanilla Cygwin bash PS1.

Thanks,

...Karl

>From: Eric Lilja Subject: Re: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man 
>page
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:59:44 +0100
>
>Dave Korn skrev:
>>On 14 December 2006 18:48, Eric Lilja wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Well, the prompt that is displayed directly after "man bash" exits
>>>exhibits the hightlighted colors (only seems to happen for that
>>>particular man page). If I issue the command stty sane, or any other
>>>command, or simply press enter the next prompt doesn't exhibit any
>>>highlighted colors but is shown as normal See the picture I posted.
>>
>>   Gotcha.  Tell us, what is your PS1 setting?  And does the bug go away 
>>if you
>>expand or shrink the window so that it's showing a different number of 
>>lines
>>of the man page at one time?  I wonder if it is because there is some
>>highlighted text very last thing on the page and 'less' leaves the 
>>highlight
>>setting in effect when it exits.
>
>My PS1 setting is (also available in the cygcheck.out btw):
>PS1 = '\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
>I can't remember if I changed that one or not.
>As you suggested I try, I made the window a lot smaller vertically and I 
>still got the same highlight as before.
>
>>
>>     cheers,
>>       DaveK
>
>- Eric
>
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