Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 12:30:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bash bug when typing long lines? Message-ID: <19981209123020.B12688@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812090010250.6788-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>; from Ben J. Cohen on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:38:40AM %2B0000 References: <19981209084328.M12688@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812090010250.6788-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>
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On Wednesday, 9 December 1998 at 0:38:40 +0000, Ben J. Cohen wrote: > Ah... I found the problem... > > I had set PS1='`tput md`\$`tput me` ' > (so that the prompt $ or # appears in bold but the main text doesn't). > > It works fine if I have PS1='\$ '. > > I think this may be a glitch, but it's quite obscure if it is---it is? Well, it looks as if tput is outputting characters that bash doesn't know about. I'm not overly surprised, but if you think the bash people might be interested, the guy to contact is Chet Ramey <chet@po.cwru.edu> Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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