Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 00:15:34 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: dot@dotat.at Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnu/13989: SIGWINCH corrupts the display of a multiline readline prompt with invisible characters Message-ID: <37EF1996.FE1F3A44@gorean.org> References: <19990927033334.6F11614DED@hub.freebsd.org>
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dot@dotat.at wrote:
> >Description:
> If you are using libreadline with a multiline prompt containing invisible
> characters on the last line, then when the program receives SIGWINCH and
> redraws the last line of the prompt it outputs spurious ^A and ^B
> character(s).
You might want to contact Chet Ramey (maintainer of Bash) on this one.
He and I discussed a similar problem with Bash prompts and SIGWINCH on
gnu.bash.bug and he told me that he found the problem and it's fixed for
Bash 2.04, which is about to go into beta.
Good luck,
Doug
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