On 07/09/23 16:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 04:03:39PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
The following snippet shows that, even with the final \], Bash produces the
same erroneous output and miscalculates the cursor position (it just needs a
longer prompt):
$ long_name="$(printf 'abcdef0123456789/%.0s' {0..20})"
$ mkdir -p /tmp/$long_name
$ cd /tmp/$long_name
$ PS1=$'\n\[\e[1m\]\w\[\e[m\] \$ '
Now press the up arrow, then the down arrow)
Have you tried testing with several different terminal emulators?
Yes. I tried with xterm, gnome-terminal and the native Linux VT. They
all show the same problem.
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Gioele Barabucci
