Chris Jones wrote: > Not sure whether this is a bug in my version of bash, but I copied over > my colored PS1 prompts from debian etch - regular user & root - and some > convenient keyboard actions are misbehaving. After retrieving a command > from the history via a CTRL-R, an ensuing CTRL-A moves the cursor to > somewhere in the middle of the prompt and CTRL-E is short of the > retrieved command's end by some ten characters. > > The main difference between debian etch and debian lenny in this respect > appears to be that the default locale is now unicode (en_US.UTF-8). > > I remember seeing other posts relative to this type of problem, possibly > on this list, but searching online, I could not find anything that > explained what is happening or provided a workaround/resolution. > > Debian lenny has the following installed: > > $ bash --version > GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
I can't reproduce this behavior with bash-3.2.49. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/