From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:18:41 -0000
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On 14 December 2006 17:43, Eric Lilja wrote:

> Hello!
> By chance, I noticed that if I view bash's man page and then press 'q'
> to exit man, the prompt is colored more brightly than it is by default.
> If I press enter the prompt is restored to its normal appearance. A
> picture exhibiting this cosmetic glith can be viewed at
> student.stunet.se/hivemind/weird_cosmetic_bug.png

  Does 'stty sane' restore normal operation?

> cygcheck.out attached. Am I the only one seeing this? If not, is it a
> cosmetic bug or expected? I have made some changes to .bashrc, I can
> post that to if needed but it's really just a few aliases.

  If you have a coloured prompt, it could be a consequence of that interacting
with the readline bug.  I don't see it here with the following versions:

Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
bash                 3.1-8          OK
cygwin               1.5.19-4       OK
man                  1.5p-1         OK


    cheers,
      DaveK
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