On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:30:35AM EDT, Chet Ramey wrote: > 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.
[..] > > $ 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. Is there anything that happened between 3.2.39 & 3.2.49 that might account for this, or would you suspect a problem with my setup? I just ran the same test again on a plain xterm with TERM=xterm and no additional layers such as gnu/screen and I'm still getting the same result. If this is of interest, what kind of information about my context should I provide. Or should I run a test with a more current version of bash and if I can't recreate, forget about it? Thanks, CJ