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Re: Bash 3.0 / Readline 5.0: broken prompt handling
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash 3.0 / Readline 5.0: broken prompt handling |
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Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:18:18 -0400 |
> Unfortunately, the second (actually just theoretical)
> PS1="foo\rbar\rquux" input line prompt-overwriting bug is still
> existing, but this IMHO doesn't matter as much as the first bug. If you
> will investigate again I'm sure you also find and fix this one...
It's always been like this. The prompt display code has never interpreted
`\r', including its effect on the cursor position.
PS1="\[foo\rbar\r\]quux"
works as expected and intended.
Chet
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