Comment 0 for bug 1745271
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| Simon May (socob) wrote Input prompt behaves incorrectly if working directory path spans two lines | #0 |
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1) The release of Ubuntu you are using: Ubuntu 17.10
2) The version of the package you are using: 3.24.2-0ubuntu4
3) What you expected to happen: The input prompt should behave the same, no matter what the working directory is.
4) What happened instead: The cursor starts overlapping the working directory text (see attached screenshot, which shows a 80×24 terminal window in a directory called “/home/
On text input, the inputted text overwrites the working directory text. When pressing backspace, the entire second line is deleted (including the $ character). This makes using the history (up arrow) very confusing because afterwards, the actual input line characters do not seem to correspond to the displayed text anymore, i.e. characters inserted at a certain point are actually shifted in the resulting line, making it very difficult to properly type in commands.