Comment 7 for bug 2067490

Just found this, I thought I had sent it, but hadn't.

I trashed the system I did a dist-upgrade on, but testing on the clean install I can reproduce the 'corruption' I mentioned:

[10.339s] user@ubuntu24:~$ sudo vi /usr/share/byobu/profiles/bashrc
 user@ubuntu24:~$ sudo vi /usr/share/byobu/profiles/bashrc
[4.131s] user@ubunsudo vi /usr/share/byobu/profiles/bashrc
[2.645s] user@ubun

To reproduce: by executing a command, vim in the example above, and when closing it the prompt looks good. Up arrow shows the previous command, but then down arrow removes part of the prompt. Hitting up arrow again then puts the previous command at the depth where it would have been without the timer.

As for the runtime being part of the prompt, I'll have a look to see if overwriting PS1 works.

The default in /usr/share/byobu/profiles/bashrc:
export PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\e[38;5;202m\]\$(byobu_prompt_status)\[\e[00m\]\$(byobu_prompt_runtime) \[\e[38;5;245m\]\u\[\e[00m\]@\[\e[38;5;172m\]\h\[\e[00m\]:\[\e[38;5;5m\]\w\[\e[00m\]\$(byobu_prompt_symbol) "

This removes the timer when put in ~/.bashrc:
export PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\e[38;5;202m\]\$(byobu_prompt_status)\[\e[00m\]\[\e[38;5;245m\]\u\[\e[00m\]@\[\e[38;5;172m\]\h\[\e[00m\]:\[\e[38;5;5m\]\w\[\e[00m\]\$(byobu_prompt_symbol) "

I like the byobu prompt, but editing a user's .bashrc file isn't practical when users can enable and disable byobu which would change the order of the last lines in this file. Would updates to byobu undo edits to the system byobu bashrc profile, and would apt complain about changed files?