>Chet Ramey, the upstream readline maintainer, FINALLY admitted that his >routines have display bugs when readline is compiled with multi-byte >support, and when a single-line prompt contains invisible characters. The >problem stems from the fact that there is no reliable way to determine >which column the cursor is currently in, so readline makes some >assumptions that the prompt always starts in column 0 (which is not always >valid): > >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-02/msg00018.html > >Hopefully Chet holds true to his promise and makes readline 5.2 better at >this (although given the history of his past releases, it will be more >than a year away; and he doesn't post his development version control >system online, so the rest of the world is stuck waiting).
Interesting, so, based on my reading of this, if i were to recompile readline without multi-byte support it should resolve this problem? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
