> > > > > > > > Basically, when I hit [ESC] then fwd slash (/) to search through the > > > > history, it throws my cursor back to get beginning of the line (on top > > > > of the prompt) and acts weird. This is in mrxvt, now if I do the same > > > > in the basic cygwin bash shell i get this: > > > > > > > > v468929 <at> TRD-CAX40JXD ~> / > > > > > ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺ Mike Stroyan proposed a patch for this upstream bug: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-02/msg00004.html I verified that it solves the problem, and will be including a variant of it in readline-5.1-3, in the next couple of days once I have time to complete the packaging. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin readline maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/