comment from upstream: " It's not really a bug though. Bash/readline assumes that the prompt starts at the first column. One way to fix this is to add a "\r" to the beginning of PS1, to eat everything on the line, but that may be more confusing. "
** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid ** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- cannot backspace across a line break in gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xterm in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp