Re: BASH BUG

[David Bristel <targon@targonia.com>]

This COULD be a problem with bash, or it could be a problem with poor terminal
emulation.  What are you using when you encounter these problems?  If you are
doing a resize, that implies you are either in X, or using a telnet/ssh client
from another platform which may be causing problems.  As has already been
stated, if you find a bug, ALWAYS, ALWAYS put in what it is that you are using
to produce the bug.  xterm, rxvt, whatever....also include kernel versions,
which version of bash you are encountering the problem on, and if you have
updated any libraries.

							David Bristel


On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:09:41 +0100 (MET)
> From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
> To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
> Cc: Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>,
>     Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <jmmv@mail.com>,
>     Debian developers' list <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: BASH BUG
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> Greg Stark writes:
>  > 
>  > Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi> writes:
>  > 
>  > > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
>  > > > 
>  > > > try the following PS1 (for root) and notice what happens:
>  > > > 	export PS1='^[[1m^[[31m\h:\w\$^[[0m '
> 
> please read the bash man page and look for \[ and \]
> 
>  > > > Before you reach the end of the line, bash jump to the start of it...
>  > > > and when you go back, it goes two lines above. Try it ! It's really
>  > > > annoying.
>  > 
>  > Except that our bash has had a serious problem that is _not_ related to the
>  > prompt. I see this problem without setting PS1 at all, just resize the window
>  > and bash will start jumping around because it still has the old window size.
>  > I'm not sure when this broke but it's been broken for a long long time. Always
>  > meant to file a bug on this.
> 
> please do with a reproduceable example.
> 
> 
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