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Re: Bash 2.05 vs. 3.0 Prompt Behavior
>> The 'extra space in the prompt' bug is well known; see e.g.
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00325.html and
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-04/msg00036.html.
>
> Status update:
> The upstream maintainer has been alerted to this issue, and Thomas Dickey has
> provided a more detailed evaluation of the problem:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-07/msg00112.html. There is
> apparently some interaction between readline and ncurses insert mode, where
> readline made some invalid assumptions about invisible characters. And the
> code in readline/display.c is HAIRY - Hans' proposed hack that has been posted
> to this list is not a proper fix, just a workaround that hides the worst of the
> bug.
>
> I'm still working on getting a bash-3.0-8 ready for release (mainly for the
> tilde-expansion bug and the missing .info file). If upstream provides a patch
> for the prompt bug in a timely manner, it will be included too.
Okay, thanks for working on this. The bug is mildly annoying, but after
all mainly cosmetic.
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