Re: readline bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/2/22 8:27 AM, eldritch cookie wrote:
> when my bash prompt covers most of the line, about 95% percent, or more the
> first letter typed is drawn in the right place but subsequent letters are
> drawn on the next line, and when text is erased and then typed again the
> first letter is incorrectly drawn on the end of the correct line, as shown
> on the annexed images, sometimes subsequent commands do not exhibit the bug.
> My system is arch linux and my version of readline is 8.1.001-1
> and my version of bash is 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu).

I can't reproduce this using bash-5.1.16 on macOS. I used the prompt in
your report, with $(smartpwd) replaced by \w.

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