Re: Bug with long color prompt + long command line?

[slinkp]

Just wondering about the lack of response...

- Maybe nobody had time to look into this? (likely)

- nobody cares since it's really only a problem with the combination
of \w and color prompts?
(With \W it only happens with an artificially long directory name as
in my example.)

- Maybe this is a repeat of old thread(s)?
Well, I did find one similar thread
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/68274b1c434bd541/d2760d11300ff621?lnk=gst&q=color+%5Cw#d2760d11300ff621
...which roughly went like:
- someone reports a problem with line wraps and color prompts
- everybody says "read the FAQ section E3/E5 (depending on version)"
- the original poster says "okay I've properly escaped my prompt
according to the FAQ, but there are still problems"
- no further replies.

I also found this, from 1999(!) which looks closer to my problem, with
no replies at all:
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/ba19c607d66bc79e/19ca0e35378d7c2d?lnk=gst&q=color+%5Cw#19ca0e35378d7c2d

What I have not found anywhere is either a pointer to documentation
that actually fixes the problem (sorry for being redundant but the
instructions in the FAQ do *not* fix this problem), or an
acknowledgment that there is a problem in bash.

Thanks,


- PW

(rather than quote my entire previous post here's a link:
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.bash.bug/browse_thread/thread/9da7e81b060d77d4
)