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Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue

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  Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue Алексей Шилин <rootlexx@mail.ru> - 2019-11-27 19:24 +0300

#15661 — Re: [readline] Multibyte invisible chars cause weird prompt length calculation issue

В Ср, 27/11/2019 в 11:02 -0500, Chet Ramey пишет:
> On 11/25/19 10:05 AM, Алексей Шилин wrote:
> 
> > Bash Version: 5.0
> > Patch Level: 11
> > Release Status: release
> > 
> > Description:
> > 
> > I'm using the following PS1 prompt (Debian's default for normal
> > users):
> > 
> > \[\e]0;\u@\h:
> > \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[
> > 00m\
> > ]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
> > 
> > ...where the first block '\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]' is for setting
> > xterm's
> > title, and the rest is Debian's "fancy" shell prompt.
> 
> Is there a literal newline in the prompt string? And is it in the
> middle
> of the non-printing character block?
> 

No, of course not. It's Evolution doing its thing, splitting the line.
Sorry for the confusion.

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