Re: possible bugs with colored-stats

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/28/20 4:10 PM, Arnaud wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>         I have colored my prompt with colors, using PS1 and PS0.
> 
>         PS1 ends with a color definition, so the command entered is colored.
>         PS0 resets the color so the output has the standard colors.

I'm not sure what terminal emulator you're using, but that PS0 is what
turns the `normal' color to light grey on mine. It's pretty tough to see.

>         I have actived colored-stats, so when I use tab completion, the 
> colors I use in the command doesn't show in the tab completion.
> 
>         Problem 1
>         If the list starts with a file, only the 1st file is colored with the 
> PS1 color.
>         If the list starts with a folder, the colors are ok.

I can't reproduce this.

>         Problem 2
>         when I list the content of a folder with ls, the color is ok (white 
> in my case, until I reach a folder,
>         it then switches the color of the following files to grey.

Nor this.

> 
>         I tried looking in the bash code to try to find the problem, but I 
> cannot locate the part of the code for that (not experienced in C)
>         Normally, readline should be the part I am looking for, but I also 
> have readline installed in my system, so it should be in it?

This is part of readline, yes.


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