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From: "william xue" <william DOT xue AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tail after tab completion in prompt
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Hi,
I noticed there was a new version of readline. Does it fix this issue?


On 3/31/06, Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote:
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> According to William Xue on 3/29/2006 11:06 PM:
> > Hi,
> > Please let me describe the issue for you:
>
> Issues like this have been reported in the past, but this is the first
> report against readline-5.1-5.
>
> > After set the PS1 in .bashrc to :
> > ---8<--------------------------------------------->8---
> > PS1="\[\e]2;\w  --  \s\V@\l@\H  hangsps:\j    \d
> > \t\a\]\[\e[31;1m\][\[\e[36;1m\]\u@\h
> > \[\e[33;1m\]\W\[\e[31;1m\]]\[\e[34;1m\]\[\e[32;1m\]\$ \[\e[37;1m\]"
> > ---8<--------------------------------------------->8---
> >
> > If type "ls /usr/src" twice, it will show "ls /usr/src/usr/src".
>
> OK, I'm seeing some weird behavior as well; readline-5.1-5, $TERM set to
> xterm in an rxvt window.  This sounds like yet another case of the weird
> prompt display when you use a one-line prompt with invisible characters,
> and I have not yet been able to track down what is going wrong in
> readline.  I'll ask upstream to see if Chet has any ideas what is going wrong.
>
> >
> > Is there something wrong in the PS1? And how can I fix this issue?
>
> As a workaround, avoid invisible characters (but lose all the cool colors
> in your prompt), use a prompt that expands to multiple lines (for example,
> the default prompt in cygwin's /etc/profile).  People have also reported
> that recompiling readline to disable multibyte characters will help,
> although I am reluctant to do that for the cygwin release because I don't
> know what else that would impact.  Otherwise, I would certainly appreciate
> help from anyone in debugging the issue.
>
> - --
> Life is short - so eat dessert first!
>
> Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
> volunteer cygwin readline maintainer
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