Re: Unwanted `^A' and `^B' characters in bash prompt.

[Lute Kamstra]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The discussion ended with Andreas writing a bug report to the
>     bash maintainers.
>
> Did they fix the bash bug?

I don't know how to verify this.  Andreas, can you tell?

>     This, however, does not solve the problem for users of current
>     versions of bash (including me :-( ).  So I wrote a small
>     function that removes the unwanted `^A' and `^B' characters from
>     the bash prompt.  Shall I put this function in etc/PROBLEMS as
>     shown in the patch below?
>
> Is there a reasonable way to install this code in comint.el or
> shell.el that won't do any harm to users in other situations?  All
> else being equal, it would be better to DTRT automatically than to
> make the user go to an effort to compensate.

I think the code can be installed in shell.el.  The function that
filters the ^A and ^B characters could be put on
`comint-output-filter-functions' automatically when bash is used.
I'll look into it when I'm back from my holidays next week.


Lute.