According to Zach Gelnett on 2/6/2006 7:55 AM: >>Chet Ramey, the upstream readline maintainer, FINALLY admitted that his >>routines have display bugs when readline is compiled with multi-byte >>support, and when a single-line prompt contains invisible characters.
> Interesting, so, based on my reading of this, if i were to recompile > readline without multi-byte support it should resolve this problem? Others have reported on this list that using --disable-multibyte when configuring readline fixes bash prompts. However, I am reluctant to do that for the official cygwin release, as I am not sure who might be relying on multibyte readline behavior. -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin readline maintainer -- 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/