Your message dated Sun, 7 Jun 2026 19:50:43 +0530 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Closing #597776 (unreproducible) has caused the Debian Bug report #597776, regarding ksh: issues with colour prompt to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: ksh Version: 93s+20080202-1 Severity: normal Background - on my previous computer running Lenny I did almost all my console stuff in gnu screen which is not effected by this bug. On my new computer using Squeeze I've opted for a tiling window manager and lots of terminals in place of gnu screen. At the moment I am being forced to use a mono prompt PS1=`uname -n`':${PWD/#$HOME/\~} [!]\$ ' because of issues with my colour prompt PS1="^[[0;33m`uname -n`^[[0m:^[[1;33m"'${PWD/#$HOME/\~} ^[[0m ^[[0;33m[^[[0m!^[[0;33m]^[[0m\$ ' This color prompt works fine most of the time but when using tab completion I end up with something like host:~ [1]$ cl 1) cls 2) /usr/bin/clear 3) /usr/bin/clear_console 4) /usr/bin/cleanlinks host[0m:~ [0;33m[[0m1][0m$ cl hitting enter returns the prompt to normal I do not observe this behaviour in gnu screen is being run nor if the prompt is being run on a remote computer over ssh or on the linux console (no X). This behaviour has been observed using rxvt-unicode (urxvt) and vte based terminals (roxterm and sakura). Now it could be that I've made mistakes in my prompt if so I apologise for wasting your time but it may also be a bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-4.dmz.2-liquorix-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ksh depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ksh recommends no packages. ksh suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---tags -1 + unreproducible thanks Version: 1.0.10-4 I wasn't able to reproduce this issue. Given the age of this issue, I'm going to close this, but if you're able to recreate it in the most recent version, please feel free to reopen. Anuradha
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