Re: tail after tab completion in prompt

[Chet Ramey]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Here is another case of a complaint about prompt display bugs when the
> prompt occupies a single line and contains invisible characters.  I was
> able to repeat the original poster's display bugs on cygwin when using
> rxvt, bash 3.1.14, readline 5.1 compiled with multibyte support using the
> ncurses 5.5 library.  I had to undo the line wraps from the PS1 in the
> OP's email (use space instead of newline).

I am unable to duplicate it on Mac OS X or Linux, using Terminal, aterm
(0.4.2) and xterm.  The OS X version links against ncurses 5.4; the
Linux version uses only the termcap library.  (Though I have to say that
the color change makes the display almost unusable.)

This is at least the second cygwin-only display problem, both (if I
recall correctly) with that version of ncurses.  I don't use cygwin,
and have no plans to install it, so I will need the assistance of
cygwin developers to track these down.

Chet

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