> After installing the latest readline updates (that fixed the earlier
> prompt issue) I'm finding an issue with the vi command line interface.
>
> Basically, when I hit [ESC] then fwd slash (/) to search through the
> history, it throws my cursor back to get beginning of the line (on top
> of the prompt) and acts weird. This is in mrxvt, now if I do the same
> in the basic cygwin bash shell i get this:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> /
> âºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâºâº
I could not reproduce this with a quick check (I normally
use set -o emacs, so I am practically clueless about
vi mode). Also, I normally use a multiline prompt, which
may be impacting things. I tried:
$ echo $PS1
\[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \[\e[35m\](${PIPESTATUS[*]}) \[\e[33m\]~\[\e[0m\]\n\$
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (0) ~
$ echo hi
hi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (0) ~
$ [ESC]/e[ENTER] # those four keystrokes rewrite this line as:
$ echo hi # with the cursor on the e
What is your PS1? What settings do you have in your ~/.inputrc?
One other thing to be aware of - readline 5.1 official patch 2
was released this weekend, so I need to make a 5.1-3 cygwin
release soon to incorporate it (it dealt with initialization issues
with line-wrapping). I don't know if your bug would have been
fixed by official patch 2, or whether I should spend more time
investigating this first.
--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin readline maintainer
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