[BusyBox 0003414]: ash behaves buggy when prompt length is equal or longer than terminal width

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Sun May 25 13:17:39 UTC 2008


The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=3414 
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Reported By:                tikva
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   3414
Category:                   Documentation
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             05-25-2008 06:17 PDT
Last Modified:              05-25-2008 06:17 PDT
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Summary:                    ash behaves buggy when prompt length is equal or
longer than terminal width
Description: 
Reproduction:
1. Set PS1 to something long
2. Type one character
3. Push backspace / home / left arrow

Cursor is not on the original spot, but instead jumps to the last column
of the previous line.
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Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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05-25-08 06:17  tikva          New Issue                                    
05-25-08 06:17  tikva          Status                   new => assigned     
05-25-08 06:17  tikva          Assigned To               => BusyBox         
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