Re: Prompt string length calculated wrongly

[Chet Ramey]

Ian Smith wrote:

> GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>
> For reasons best kept to myself I use a two-line prompt containing a 
> newline:
        [...]
> Note that in the second example I have a longer path component.  It 
> appears that part of the prompt length is incorrectly added to the 
> calculated length of input.

This was fixed in patch 2 to bash-3.0.

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-3.0-patches

Chet