Re: Stange tab behaviour

[Emm Vasilakis <evas%agn.forthnet.gr@localhost>]

On 2005-04-15 at 16:11 +0300, Emm Vasilakis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've run into a strange "bug" on my A3000 with NetBSD 2.0 (clean
> install).
> 
> I'm using bash as my shell, and I've noticed this:
> 
> When pressing tab to get a list of possible completions, there's one
> character added to what the bash shows (actually it adds the last
> character, i.e. the one I pressed tab after). An example will probably
> clear this up:
> 
> evas@joyce evas $ ls /usr/bin/z 
> zcat    zcmp    zdiff   zegrep  zfgrep  zforce  zgrep   zmore   znew
> evas@joyce evas $ ls /usr/bin/zz                                      
> 
> At the first prompt, I press tab twice, get the list of possible
> z-starting apps, and when it returns, I have another 'z' on the prompt.
> 
> Also, pressing backspace, will clear everyhting but the first letter
> ('l'), like this:
> 
> evas@joyce evas $ l
> 
> The whole thing behavies correctly (i.e. pressing enter at the prompt
> doesnt give me an l: command not found, just a new empty prompt). Same
> with the double zz thing. Bash only knows about one, even though I see
> two.)
> 
> This happens with both bash 2.05 and 3, and through ssh or a local
> console.
> 
> Any ideas about this?

Seems it has something to do with my PS1 variable:

PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'

Using a simpler one:

PS1='\u@\h: \w \$ '

everything is ok (but with less colors ;-)


Emmanuel