Oh, sorry about that. Apparently, xterm uses a different value for PS1
than gnome-terminal by default. It seems that this issue only happens
when color escape sequences are involved, which is why it didn’t happen
for me in xterm. However, when I manually set xterm to the same value as
in gnome-terminal, I also got the issue in xterm.
So, it does seem like a bash issue once again. Thanks for checking!
** Also affects: bash (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- Input prompt behaves incorrectly if working directory path spans two lines
+ Input prompt behaves incorrectly if working directory path spans three lines
** Description changed:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using: Ubuntu 17.10
- 2) The version of the package you are using: 3.24.2-0ubuntu4
+ 2) The version of the package you are using: gnome-terminal version
+ 3.24.2-0ubuntu4; bash version 4.4-5ubuntu1
3) What you expected to happen: The input prompt should behave the same,
no matter what the working directory is.
4) What happened instead: The cursor starts overlapping the working
directory text (see attached screenshot, which shows a 80×24 terminal
window in a directory called
“/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/a/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789”).
On text input, the inputted text overwrites the working directory text.
When pressing backspace, the entire second line is deleted (including
the $ character). This makes using the history (up arrow) very confusing
because afterwards, the actual input line characters do not seem to
correspond to the displayed text anymore, i.e. characters inserted at a
certain point are actually shifted in the resulting line, making it very
difficult to properly type in commands.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745271
Title:
Input prompt behaves incorrectly if working directory path spans three
lines
Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using: Ubuntu 17.10
2) The version of the package you are using: gnome-terminal version
3.24.2-0ubuntu4; bash version 4.4-5ubuntu1
3) What you expected to happen: The input prompt should behave the
same, no matter what the working directory is.
4) What happened instead: The cursor starts overlapping the working
directory text (see attached screenshot, which shows a 80×24 terminal
window in a directory called
“/home/test/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/a/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789/01234567890123456789”).
On text input, the inputted text overwrites the working directory
text. When pressing backspace, the entire second line is deleted
(including the $ character). This makes using the history (up arrow)
very confusing because afterwards, the actual input line characters do
not seem to correspond to the displayed text anymore, i.e. characters
inserted at a certain point are actually shifted in the resulting
line, making it very difficult to properly type in commands.
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