On 12/17/13 9:59 AM, Jinesh Choksi wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 45
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> The simplest PS1 prompt which demonstrates the issue is:
>
> PS1="\[\033[01;31m\]Hello world\n\u@\h:\[\033[01;32m\]\w\$\[\033[00m\] "
>
> The issue is that a lengthy current working directory gets split up before
> the width of the terminal is reached.
>
> This happens only when colour sequences are used. When no colour sequences
> are used, the prompt works correctly.
This is the result of the \n in the prompt, believe it or not. I have
attached a patch, and the patch will be in bash-4.3/readline-6.3. I
would appreciate as many people as possible testing it.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
*** /fs2/chet/bash/bash-20131219/lib/readline/display.c 2013-10-14 09:25:44.000000000 -0400
--- lib/readline/display.c 2013-12-27 13:10:56.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 749,756 ****
/* XXX - this assumes that the invisible characters may be split, but only
between the first and the last lines. */
! temp += ((local_prompt_prefix == 0) ? ((newlines == 0) ? prompt_invis_chars_first_line
! : ((newlines == prompt_lines_estimate) ? wrap_offset : prompt_invis_chars_first_line))
! : ((newlines == 0) ? wrap_offset : 0));
!
inv_lbreaks[++newlines] = temp;
#if defined (HANDLE_MULTIBYTE)
--- 749,755 ----
/* XXX - this assumes that the invisible characters may be split, but only
between the first and the last lines. */
! temp += (newlines == 0) ? prompt_invis_chars_first_line
! : ((newlines == prompt_lines_estimate) ? wrap_offset : prompt_invis_chars_first_line);
!
inv_lbreaks[++newlines] = temp;
#if defined (HANDLE_MULTIBYTE)
