Re: Bug in readline when readline-colored-completion-prefix is set

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/29/23 11:32 AM, raphaal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My version of bash is:
> GNU bash, version 5.2.15(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
>
> When the .inputrc contains:
>  > colored-completion-prefix on
>
> and LS_COLORS="*.readline-colored-completion-prefix=01;30"
>
> then readline ignores the setting and uses default CYAN color.

Thanks for the report. This was fixed several months ago in the bash and
readline devel branches. It's patch 3 to readline-8.2 but there's no
corresponding bash patch yet.

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