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Subject: Re: Cursor can land before the prompt after calling beginning-of-line
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On 1/8/20 4:13 AM, Julien Palard wrote:
> It can be reproduced on Debian bullseye with bash 5.0.11 on urxvt and xterm and by a friend on MacOS with bash 3.2.57.
> 
> With this procedure I'm able to reproduce it consistently:
> 
> - Move ~/.bashrc elsewhere just to start clean
> - Start a new terminal (in my case tput cols tells it's 79 columns, beware, the bug varies according to the terminal width).
> - run `bash --norc` in it, to start clean
> - Prompt in my case is `bash-5.0$ `, beware, the bug varies according to the length of the prompt.
> - type `printf "Hello World\n                    "` (1)
> - hit the `uparrow` of your keyboard to see the printf again (2)
> - hit C-a (bash shortcut for beginning-of-line) (3)

Readline assumes it starts in column 0. If it doesn't know the physical
screen position of the cursor when it starts, it can't make correct
decisions about redisplay. Sometimes it wants to go to the beginning of
the line and redraw/erase characters, sometimes it wants to move backwards
and do it, but all these decisions assume that it knows where it is on
the line.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/