Re: Prompt color reset after using arrow keys

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/7/24 5:05 PM, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in bash 5.2.21 the following PS1 assignment
>
>      PS1=$'\[\e[0;34;42m\]'$(printf x%.0s {1..111})$'\[\e[0m\]\$ '
>
> should make the prompt a long list of "x", displayed in blue on a red 
> background. This is in fact the case.
>
> However, if the terminal window is smaller than 111 characters and, thus, 
> the prompt is split onto two lines, the following bug will appear:
>
> Pressing the up arrow and then the down arrow, will reset the part of the 
> prompt in the last line. The last line will no longer be styled with blue- 
> on-green colors, but it will use the standard colors (white on black, in my 
> case).

I can't reproduce this on macOS with the current devel sources using
Terminal, xterm (from XQuartz), or iTerm.

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