Cygwin 1.7.x upgrade: Xterm history messes up prompt

Cygwin 1.7.x upgrade: Xterm history messes up prompt

[Derek Greer]

I just upgraded to the latest X11 bits yesterday and now when I pull up
command history (i.e. Esc + k,l keys), my prompt gets messed up.  For
example, if my prompt were as follows:

[ABCDEFG]: dgreer > 

... and I start going through the history of my commands, my command ends up
as follows:

[ABCDEFG]: dgls //somebox/somefolder


Has anyone else experienced this?  Seems like some bugs were introduced.
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Re: Cygwin 1.7.x upgrade: Xterm history messes up prompt

[Derek Greer]

I discovered that the problem is specific to my PS1 settings, but a bug
nevertheless.  The prompt I've used for years is:

PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007\033[32m\][\h]: \[\033[33m ${PWD##*/}\033[0m\] > '

This shows "[current machine] : current folder >" where the current machine
is greenish and the current folder is yellowish.  Something about the latest
version doesn't like the special characters that produce the colors anymore
... at least how I have them specified.
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Re: Cygwin 1.7.x upgrade: Xterm history messes up prompt

[Andy Koppe]

2010/1/15 Derek Greer:
>
> I discovered that the problem is specific to my PS1 settings, but a bug
> nevertheless.  The prompt I've used for years is:
>
> PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007\033[32m\][\h]: \[\033[33m ${PWD##*/}\033[0m\] > '

Only non-printing must be enclosed in \[ ... \] , but you've got
${PWD##*/} in there as well. As a consequence, readline thinks the
prompt is shorter than it actually is.

Andy

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