Re: Bash 4 cursor in my prompt

[Special Sauce]

Glad I'm not alone here!

BTW patching to 4.0.17 did nothing to fix the problem

Ian Kelling wrote:
> 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.
>
> Odd. The earlier version does not cause it to happen now. So, I don't know 
> what
> caused it. Perhaps I did something screwy in the original patch/compile 
> sequence.
>
> - Ian Kelling