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Re: Forgets color when resizing with newline in prompt
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Forgets color when resizing with newline in prompt |
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Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:22:30 -0400 |
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On 10/5/19 11:41 AM, ao2 wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 3
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
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> I noticed that when there is a newline in the prompt bash "forgets"
> about ANSI color sequences when the window is resized. I am not sure
> f this is general for other kinds of ANSI escape codes.
Readline tries hard to minimize redisplay by only redrawing the last line
of the prompt (the portion following the final newline). Occasionally that
has undesired consequences, like this, but this isn't a compelling reason
to change it.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/