Description of problem: Bug 1: 1. Have a mc running where you have two different directories in each panel. 2. Tab, so that you are in the other panel. 3. Ctrl-O to go to subshell. 4. You see two different prompts printed next to each other. Bug 2: 1. Have a mc running where you have two different directories in each panel. 2. Tab, so that you are in the other panel. 3. Tab, so that you are back. 4. Ctrl-O to go to subshell. 5. You see two same prompts printed next to each other -> no prompt printing is desired in this case. Similar problem: 1. have PS1 set to PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\H\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[00;01m\]\w\n\033[01;34m\]\$ \[\033[00m\]' 2. run mc 3. CTRL+O to subshell kovinek:~ [OK, colors right] # mc [OK, colors right] # [extra line, terminal color] Similar in FC6: kovinek:~ [OK, colors right] # mc [OK, colors right] # [extra line, the right color (as above)] In this case it doesn't matter if you have same directories or different in the pannels. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mc-4.6.1a-45.20070124cvs.fc7 mc-4.6.1a-35.fc6 How reproducible: always
Also RHEL5 has the same bahaviour as FC6. mc-4.6.1a-34.el5
The patch to fix the two bugs listed on top of this bugreport are already fixed in rawhide. The discussion related to multilined and colorized prompt goes on upstream. I'll release updates after a final solution is found.
Created attachment 157468 [details] Patch to fix both of the noted issues.
It's now applied in rawhide.
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Tested on F8, mc-4.6.1a-50.20070604cvs.fc8, i386 - I wasn't able to reproduce any of those issues, so with regards to comment #4 I'm closing this bug.