From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 27 0:15:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt014n8c.san.rr.com [24.30.129.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B351520F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 00:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01366; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 00:15:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37EF1996.FE1F3A44@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 00:15:34 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990918-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 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 References: <19990927033334.6F11614DED@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message