On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 23:31 +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > VTE's emulation behavior didn't change recently. Bash/Readline could > have changed, I don't know (might be interesting to check their > Ubuntu > packages' changelogs).
What I did notice that libvte and gnome-terminal packages were both updated recently, and I think I gnome-terminal packages were only updated a few days after. But that still doesn't explain, why it suddenly happened with the old libvte packages. > Or you're executing somewhat different steps. > > If the printed prompt is exactly the same (including all the bells > and > whistles that it prints, like the username, hostname, working > directory, previous command's exit value, background job stuff), and > the terminal width is exactly the same (is it?), and you're pressing > the same keys to invoke the same previous commands or editing the > current command in the exact same way, then you should see the exact > same behavior. Any difference in any of these could make the bug > appear or vanish. At least I wouldn't be aware of doing anything differently. > Also make sure that the previous command's output ended with a > newline, that is, the prompt begins in the first column. Otherwise > it's common to see misbehavior while editing. That's clear, and that was definitely not the case. > By now we are sure that we're talking about two separate issues. The > line editing misbehavior is surely independent from Samuel's patch. I guess so, too. Thanks, Chris.
