I don't understand the problem specification.
I tried duplicating the problem in 4 different terms:
SecureCRT-a linux box, then in three cygwin variations:
the Win-cmd style terminal, rxvt (non-X version), and
rxvt (X-version). They all appeared to look the same.
What is meant by typing
compiled with multibyte support using the
ncurses 5.5 library. I had to undo the line wraps from the PS1 in the
OP's email (use space instead of newline).
- Original Message
Subject: tail after tab completion in prompt
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:06:46 +0800
From: William Xue
Eric Blake wrote:
Here is another case of a complaint about prompt display bugs when the
prompt occupies a single line and contains invisible characters. I was
able to repeat the original poster's display bugs on cygwin when using
rxvt, bash 3.1.14, readline 5.1 compiled with multibyte