Re: Forgets color when resizing with newline in prompt

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Forgets color when resizing with newline in prompt
Date	2019-10-10 10:22 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 10/5/19 11:41 AM, ao2 wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 3
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
>         I noticed that when there is a newline in the prompt bash "forgets"
>         about ANSI color sequences when the window is resized. I am not sure
>         f this is general for other kinds of ANSI escape codes.

Readline tries hard to minimize redisplay by only redrawing the last line
of the prompt (the portion following the final newline). Occasionally that
has undesired consequences, like this, but this isn't a compelling reason
to change it.

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		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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