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According to Mike Stroyan on 2/3/2006 12:16 PM:
> Description:
> The prompt is corrupted when using the vi Esc/ history search.
> This happens when the prompt contains non-printing characters
> marked by the \[ \] delimiters.
>
> Fix:
> The best fix seems to be in _rl_make_prompt_for_search in
> bash/lib/readline/display.c
>
> Everything behaves better if _rl_make_prompt_for_search just uses the
> unexpanded rl_prompt string for composing its result. Here is a patch
> that comments out the troublesome code.
My only concern is whether this patch also affects {non-,}incremental
searches in emacs mode. But it sure solves the display bugs of doing
non-incremental searches in vi mode. Thanks for the patch.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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