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Re: Bash 3.0 / Readline 5.0: broken prompt handling
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Paul Jarc |
Subject: |
Re: Bash 3.0 / Readline 5.0: broken prompt handling |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:13:16 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
I wrote:
> With 3.0, if I don't protect them, then bash refuses to use the last
> line of my tty, and every character I type causes bash to jump
> upwards a line or two and split out gibberish like this:
> ÏÏÏÏÏÏ÷U(GÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏUU
bash-2.05b linked with readline-5.0 exhibits similar behavior, though
not quite the same. (3.0 jumps upwards monotonically; 2.05b sometimes
goes back down; also slightly different amounts of gibberish.)
bash-3.0 refuses to link with readline-4.3, so I couldn't check that.
paul