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RE: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:18:41 -0000
- Subject: RE: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page
On 14 December 2006 17:43, Eric Lilja wrote:
> Hello!
> By chance, I noticed that if I view bash's man page and then press 'q'
> to exit man, the prompt is colored more brightly than it is by default.
> If I press enter the prompt is restored to its normal appearance. A
> picture exhibiting this cosmetic glith can be viewed at
> student.stunet.se/hivemind/weird_cosmetic_bug.png
Does 'stty sane' restore normal operation?
> cygcheck.out attached. Am I the only one seeing this? If not, is it a
> cosmetic bug or expected? I have made some changes to .bashrc, I can
> post that to if needed but it's really just a few aliases.
If you have a coloured prompt, it could be a consequence of that interacting
with the readline bug. I don't see it here with the following versions:
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
bash 3.1-8 OK
cygwin 1.5.19-4 OK
man 1.5p-1 OK
cheers,
DaveK
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