Re: Use of arrows to scroll history list not same.

[Chet Ramey]

pete Spam-Avoider wrote:
> 
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linu
> x-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' 
> -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/
> share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.  -I. -I./include 
> -I.
> /lib   -g -O2
> uname output: Linux parallax 2.6.11 #1 SMP Sat Apr 2 18:08:45 EST 2005 i686 
> unkn
> own unknown GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>         In upgrading from bash-2.04 to bash-3.0 i'm experiencing a
>         change in the behaviour of the up/down arrow keys to scroll
>         through the history list of an interactive shell.  The 
>         behaviour for bash-2.04 was that i could scroll up from and 
>         then back down to a blank line.  For bash-3.0 if i scroll up
>         only one line and back down i can return to a blank line, 
>         however, if i scroll up more then one line then i can not
>         return to a blank line, instead some near random line of the
>         lines i had passed over remains at the prompt and not a blank
>         line.
>         
> 
> Repeat-By:
>         Scroll up and down through the history list and see if
>         you can return down to a blank line.

Apply the patches to bash-3.0.  Patch 5 fixes this problem.

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-3.0-patches/bash30-005
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-3.0-patches/bash30-005

Chet
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