Re: Line wrapping issues

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/9/17 10:30 PM, Leon Klingele wrote:
> I'm experiencing line wrapping issues when using bash with fzf[1].
> The issue is described in [2] and it looks like it is not caused by fzf
> but instead by bash itself.
> 
> For the sake of completeness, here are the steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1. Use bash with fzf, this requires you to install fzf. See [3].
> 2. Do an echo "abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc
> abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc" (so
> you have that command in your bash history)
> 3. export PS1="abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc
> abc"
> 4. Activate fzf's reverse-i-search (Ctrl + r) (you need to have
> sourc'ed fzf's $HOME/.fzf.bash file)
> 5. Select the echo "abc .." line, press enter

If these steps leave the cursor in a different position than readline
expects it to be (before step 4), even the redraw-current-line at the
end of the macro may not help. You could try replacing the key sequence
to redraw the current line with \c-l and see if that helps.

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