Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

[Roman Rakus]

On 12/11/2012 06:03 PM, njhwang wrote:
> Thanks, this is exactly what I needed to fix the issue on my end as well.
>
> I'm curious if anyone who patched bash in this manner started seeing a weird
> issue with long commands in the terminal? After building bash-4.2.29, long
> commands would no longer break into multiple lines in gnome-terminal, and
> would start overwriting the first line with a '>' character at the
> beginning. After a lot of searching and attempts to fix it, I ended up just
> using byobu (a terminal emulator using screen) to make the new line issue go
> away. Any ideas what the root cause might be?
>
>
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I would check PS1 especially if you have correctly escaped non-printing 
characters.

RR