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Bug 198734

Summary: pdksh prompt skips to last newline in emacs mode
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Michael Glasgow <michael.glasgow>
Component: pdkshAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
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Version: 4.0CC: benl
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0667 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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emacsmode2.patch none

Description Michael Glasgow 2006-07-13 06:47:05 UTC 
Description of problem:

pdksh no longer displays multi-line shell prompts in emacs mode

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

pdksh-5.2.14-30.3

How reproducible:

Set PS1 to any string containing a newline and enable emacs mode.

Steps to Reproduce:

ksh -o emacs
PS1='abc
123 '
  
Actual results:

Prompt looks like:
123

Expected results:

Should look like:
abc
123


Additional info:

The emacsmode patch in 30.3 broke multi-line shell prompts.  Though I'd never 
use such a thing myself, some of our users have been for years, and they want 
the old behavior back.

It looks easy enough to fix (patch attached).
Comment 1 Michael Glasgow 2006-07-13 06:49:57 UTC 
Created attachment 132347 [details]
emacsmode2.patch
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-15 15:57:03 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0667.html