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4.4-rc1: readline wrapping error when prompt wraps around


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: 4.4-rc1: readline wrapping error when prompt wraps around
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 11:08:26 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux)

When $PS1 contains \[ \] and is longer than the line length then
readline miscounts the wrap coloumn.  For example, set PS1 like this:

PS1="\[$(tput bold)\]$(printf '%*s' $(stty size | awk '{print$2}') x)\[$(tput 
sgr0)\] "

This causes readline to wrap the input too early by the amount of hidden
characters inside \[ \].

Andreas.

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