Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:50:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Eric Blake cc: "Robinson, Mark" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash prompt problem - some more observations In-Reply-To: <4309C33F.4070908@byu.net> Message-ID: References: <3333F09C50966C499FD3A3E8FA4514C2334E2E@sydexchange1.vignette.com> <4309C33F.4070908@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/