Re: [PATCH] Readline not being able to handle long lines

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:14:11PM +0500, Mihail Konev wrote:
> > Buggy (replace the ^-sequences in the second line):
> > PS1="[\${PWD##*/}]\$ "      # set the prompt
> > PS1="^[]0;\$PWD^G^M$PS1"    # set the window title
> > 
> 
> Turns out this was the only one buggy.
> So it was all the (mis-) googled PS1 customizations,
> that are actually incompatible with bash 3.2.0 and higher.

This is just plain wrong in any bash version.  Any part of the prompt that
does not cause the cursor to change position needs to be protected inside
\[ \].  Thus, the sequence from ESC to BEL on line 2 of your script should
be inside \[ \].

Using a CR (^M) probably screws things up as well.  I don't even know why
you have that in there.  If you want to ensure the prompt always starts
on a new line, use a newline instead of a CR, which will presumably
start to overwrite the last line of the previous command's output, if
that output doesn't end with a newline of its own.  I would not expect
this to be the desired behavior.

In any case, you have a working prompt in your original email, so you
could just stick with that one.