Re: Colored prompt length is not correctly computed - UTF-8

[Chris Jones]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 11:20:56PM EDT, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > Is there a 4.0 .deb available..?

> A bash 4.0 .deb is available in Debian's experimental distribution.  I
> don't know if the dependencies it was compiled with are available in
> Lenny or Squeeze or not as it would have matched Unstable at one time
> and so you would need to check.  Even if it isn't available (yet) due
> to the dependencies you could use it as the basis of a backport to
> Lenny.

Thanks. But I feel that bash is too central a piece of the system for
s/o like me to experiment with, so I'll live with it for now.

A minor change in my habits appears to provide a workaround: hitting
CTRL+L prior to hitting CTRL+A/E.

CJ