Re: Prompt messed up if PS1 contains ANSI escape sequences

[Gioele Barabucci]

On 07/09/23 16:24, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> On 07/09/23 16:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 04:03:39PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> > > The following snippet shows that, even with the final \], Bash 
> > > produces the
> > > same erroneous output and miscalculates the cursor position (it just 
> > > needs a
> > > longer prompt):
> > >
> > >      $ long_name="$(printf 'abcdef0123456789/%.0s' {0..20})"
> > >      $ mkdir -p /tmp/$long_name
> > >      $ cd /tmp/$long_name
> > >      $ PS1=$'\n\[\e[1m\]\w\[\e[m\] \$ '
> > >
> > >      Now press the up arrow, then the down arrow)
> >
> > Have you tried testing with several different terminal emulators? 
>
> Yes. I tried with xterm, gnome-terminal and the native Linux VT. They 
> all show the same problem.

In the heat of the testing I mistakenly used bash 5.0, not bash 5.2.

Bash 5.2.12 does not show this problem.

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci