Re: tail after tab completion in prompt

[Linda Walsh]

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 "ls /usr/src" twice?

> "ls /usr/src; ls /usr/src" ?
or typing in "ls /usr/src" at two different prompts, one
after the other?

All I see is the colored prompt:
[user@host <dir>]$
where dir=the last dir component (or "~" for home).




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 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 <william.xue AT gmail DOT com>
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>
> Hi,
> Please let me describe the issue for you:
> After set the PS1 in .bashrc to :
> - ---8<--------------------------------------------->8---
> PS1="\[\e]2;\w  --  \s\V@\l@\H  hangsps:\j    \d
> \t\a\]\[\e[31;1m\][\[\e[36;1m\]\u@\h
> \[\e[33;1m\]\W\[\e[31;1m\]]\[\e[34;1m\]\[\e[32;1m\]\$ \[\e[37;1m\]"
> - ---8<--------------------------------------------->8---
>
> If type "ls /usr/src" twice, it will show "ls /usr/src/usr/src".
>
> Is there something wrong in the PS1? And how can I fix this issue?
>