Package: libreadline5
Version: 5.1-1
Severity: normal

This version breaks the %[ and %] characters for psql (from the
postgresql-client-8.1 package) prompts, which are equivalent to \[ and
\] in bash, allowing terminal control characters to be included without
messing up readline's idea of the prompt length.

My ~/.psqlrc includes:

\set PROMPT1 '%[%033[0;35m%]%/@%m%R%#%[%033[0;22m%] ' 

This worked fine with libreadline5 5.0-11, but with the latest version
the cursor ends up ~13 characters before the end of the prompt.  Some
examples of where the cursor ends up:

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         ^
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 ^


If I remove the control codes that reset the color (between the second
%[ %] pair), the cursor is placed closer to the end of the prompt, but
still over the prompt.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libreadline5 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8.1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  readline-common               5.1-2      GNU readline and history libraries

libreadline5 recommends no packages.

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