Glad I'm not alone here! BTW patching to 4.0.17 did nothing to fix the problem
Ian Kelling wrote: > Chet Ramey wrote: > > Ian Kelling wrote: > >> Special Sauce wrote: > >>> From: anton > >>> To: bug-bash@gnu.org > >>> Subject: Cursor starts inside prompt > >> I just noticed this issue too. It seems it was fine under gnu screen, > >> but not with plain xterm or gnome-terminal. Upgrading to the latest > >> patch version 4.0.17 fixed it. > > > > That's interesting, since none of the patches so far have dealt with > > readline display or prompt expansion. > > Odd. The earlier version does not cause it to happen now. So, I don't know > what > caused it. Perhaps I did something screwy in the original patch/compile > sequence. > > - Ian Kelling
