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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:07:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: buggy tab-expansion
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From: lars AT segv DOT dk (Lars Munch)
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:25:16PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Lars Munch wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 06:10:48AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > According to Alex Goldman on 7/21/2005 3:00 AM:
> > > > Here's an example (I tried this in the original DOS/Cygwin terminal
> > > > and in Rxvt) :
> > > >
> > > > 1. type "grep" in the command line, but don't hit Enter
> > > > 2. hit Tab quickly several times (two is often enough)
> > > >
> > > > The line now becomes "grepp", even though there are no "grepp*" in PATH.
> > > >
> > > > (Hitting Enter invokes "grep" - single 'p')
> > >
> > > This sounds related to the buggy prompt display code.  There is a known
> > > issue in readline where some (but not all) prompts cause display problems,
> > > because the display engine isn't properly accounting for invisible
> > > characters in the string, and I am awaiting a patch from the upstream
> > > maintainer.  In the meantime, I was unable to reproduce the symptoms;
> > > could you please let me know what your $PS1 variable is?
> >
> > I have also been having this problem for the last month or so. My PS1 is
> > a long nasty one:
> >
> > \[\e]2;\u@\h \w\a\e[32m\]\u\[\e[34;1m\]@\[\e[0m\e[32m\]\h\[\e[34;1m\]:\[\e[0m\e[33m\]\W\[\e[34;1m\]>\[\e[0m\]
> 
> A common workaround for prompt problems in bash is to add \[\] to the end
> of the $PS1 (which is what Eric's patch attempts to do, given the current
> lack of a proper fix from the upstream maintainers).
> 	Igor

Adding \[\] to the end of $PS1 did not work in my case.

-- Lars Munch

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