Re: Bash 4 cursor in my prompt

[Ian Kelling]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> Ian Kelling wrote:
>> Special Sauce wrote:
>>> From: anton
>>> To: bug-bash@gnu.org
>>> Subject: Cursor starts inside prompt
>> I just noticed this issue too. It seems it was fine under gnu screen,
>> but not with plain xterm or gnome-terminal. Upgrading to the latest
>> patch version 4.0.17 fixed it.
>
> That's interesting, since none of the patches so far have dealt with
> readline display or prompt expansion.
>
> Chet
>

Yes, quite odd. In my initial investigation I did grep -ri "prompt" on the 
patches and found nothing. Some time later after a bunch of testing, I figured, 
well, I should upgrade from patch level 10 to 17 before reporting it, and then 
it was gone. If your curious or doubt this was the real issue, I could double 
check and narrow it down to a specific patch that fixes it.

- Ian Kelling