Re: backward-kill-word is not refreshing correctly

[Chet Ramey]

Matt@ice.filescope.com wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib  
> -DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
>  -DSTANDARD_UTILS_PATH='/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin' 
> -DSYS_BASHRC='/etc/bash/bashrc' -DSYS_BASH_LOGOUT='/etc/bash/bash_logout' 
> -DNON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS -DSSH_SOURCE_BASHRC -march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe
> uname output: Linux ice.filescope.com 2.6.25.10 #5 PREEMPT Thu Nov 27 
> 16:10:07 EST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz GenuineIntel 
> GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 10
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       When I type a long string of text and start pressing ctrl-W to 
> backwards-kill words, bash deletes the words but doesn't visually refresh 
> (the words still appear on the command line). This was not occurring for me 
> in the 3.x series of Bash.

I can't reproduce this.  I wonder if it's just latency on the machine.

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/