Re: rl_message with invisible prompt chars in C locale

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/18/23 1:18 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> With LC_ALL=C, invisible characters in the prompt sometimes cause
> incorrect redisplay when adding or clearing a message with a line
> that's longer than the screen width.

Thanks for the report. Redisplay has to be careful when switching
between lines with different prompts generated by rl_message and
user prompts containing invisible characters, since the number of
invisible characters on the line changes.

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