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[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Ochaba wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem concerning the bash_history: When I use the arrow-keys
> to flip through the different entries in the bash_history the last
> character of the command line cannot be deleted. This is a bit
> disturbing, since I did not change anything and this behaviour was not
> there before.

Are you sure you can't delete it or does it just look that way? Sounds to
me like you have some escape sequences in your prompt that aren't correctly
bracketed by the "unprinting" start & stop prompt sequences, thus it has the
wrong size for the prompt?

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