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Re: readline doesn't refresh properly anymore
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Dennis Williamson |
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Re: readline doesn't refresh properly anymore |
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Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:27:56 -0500 |
On Jun 2, 2016 11:25 AM, "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I moved from ubuntu 10.04 to 14.04 and now readline usually doesn't refresh
> my command line when scrolling through my history - the last tokens are often
> not shown until I move the cursor there. Is that due to a change in bash?
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> TIA,
> cts
I'm guessing that you have non-printing characters in your prompt. I don't know why the problem wouldn't have shown up for you before though if your prompt hasn't changed. If this is the problem, you need to surround sequences of non-printing characters with \[ and \].