I may have mentioned this before in the past, but I've encountered a
situation with bash where playing back the history by repeatedly pressing
up-arrow has strange effects when I reach a certain command line which is
long enough to cause wrap around. If I'm using the kde konsole application,
the app. dies and if I'm using an xterm, the bell beeps. In either case,
bash scrambles the prompt but gets its act together again after a couple
more presses of the up arrow.
I've examined the history file in khexedit and there are no weird characters
in it. If I make the xterm or konsole wide enough so that wraparound doesn't
occur, the problem goes away. If I repeat the same command by cutting and
pasting the text, so that I have more than one identical lines in the
history, not every occurence of the line triggers the problem.
bash --version returns
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-suse-linux)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Any light, anyone ?
Regards,
Niall
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