From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 18:00:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14483 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:00:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14473 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:00:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA27229; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 12:30:26 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA31220; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 12:30:20 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981209123020.B12688@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 12:30:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bash bug when typing long lines? References: <19981209084328.M12688@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Ben J. Cohen on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:38:40AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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