Re: prompt with \[ \] corrupted by vi history search

[Eric Blake]

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According to Mike Stroyan on 2/3/2006 12:16 PM:
> Description:
>       The prompt is corrupted when using the vi Esc/ history search.
>       This happens when the prompt contains non-printing characters
>       marked by the \[ \] delimiters.
> 
> Fix:
>       The best fix seems to be in _rl_make_prompt_for_search in 
>       bash/lib/readline/display.c
> 
>       Everything behaves better if _rl_make_prompt_for_search just uses the
>       unexpanded rl_prompt string for composing its result.  Here is a patch
>       that comments out the troublesome code.

My only concern is whether this patch also affects {non-,}incremental
searches in emacs mode.  But it sure solves the display bugs of doing
non-incremental searches in vi mode.  Thanks for the patch.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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