Re: Hard-wrapped commands are displayed incorrectly after READLINE_LINE is changed

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/11/16 6:10 AM, Lauri Ranta wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 42
> Release Status: release
> 
> With for example `bind -x '"\ea":READLINE_LINE='` and `PS1='$ '`, if the 
> width of a shell window is 20 characters so that the 30 character command
> 
>     $ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>     aaaaaaaaaaaa
> 
> is displayed on two lines, after pressing `\ea`, the command is displayed as
> 
>     $ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>     $
> 
> if the point is on the second line or as
> 
>     $
>     aaaaaaaaaaaa
> 
> if the point is on the first line.

Yes, bash redraws the current line and does not erase the rest of the
previous line contents.  This is an artifact of how bash clears the current
line before running the command specified by `bind -x'.  I'll take a look
at fixing this, but probably not before bash-4.4.

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