On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Robinson, Mark on 8/22/2005 1:50 AM: > > g'day > > > > I've been noodling around with the extra-character-bash-prompt-problem. > > It appears to manifest itself (for me at least) when I have title-bar > > info in my prompt, e.g.
It's actually triggered by any special characters in the prompt, regardless of whether \[ and \] are present (not surprising, as this is a prompt length computation bug). > Which version of bash? Have you tried bash-3.0-11 yet? You may want to > report this upstream, at bug-bash AT gnu.org, since I am at a loss as to > what else to do for this particular bug. Bash 3.0-11 on my machine manifests the bug. I'll try to report it upstream later... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/