When in a multibyte locale, inclusing uft-8 locales, bash is known to be slow repainting long command lines. A patch was submitted to bash-bugs, debian and suse; apparently only suse now includes it. The bash-bugs post submitting the patch is at: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2002-12/msg00057.html The patch itself is linked in the above as: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2002-12/bin00044.bin There has been a recent thread about this in linux-utf8@nl.linux.org under the subject: UTF-8 Locales in Linux Distributions. Adding this patch to the ebuild for many of us. -JimC
Added bash-2.05b-r4, thanks.