Bug 24934 – output-meta in inputrc may cause a logout

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jesús P Rey (Chuso) 2003-07-20 18:37:33 UTC]

If output-meta (needed to see non-ASCII characters when typing them) and bash-completion are activated in a login shell (it won't happen with subshells) it will logout if you try to delete a character next to a non-ASCII character.

For example, if you type "a

[Comment 1 Jesús P Rey (Chuso) 2003-07-20 18:37:33 UTC]

If output-meta (needed to see non-ASCII characters when typing them) and bash-completion are activated in a login shell (it won't happen with subshells) it will logout if you try to delete a character next to a non-ASCII character.

For example, if you type "aña" (ñ=alt+241) and then try to delete de first "a" it will logout.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2003-09-11 19:16:37 UTC]

is this still an issue ?

[Comment 3 Christian Birchinger (RETIRED) 2003-09-12 07:35:23 UTC]

I can reproduce it but i have no clue how to fix it. I'm no expert on bash-completion. I only bump versions from time to time because no one else did.

[Comment 4 Christian Birchinger (RETIRED) 2003-12-13 11:56:03 UTC]

Here with Eterm 0.9.2 + bash 2.05b-r7 + bash-completion 20031112 it doesn't
have this problem anymore. I guess some update fixed it.

[Comment 5 Christian Birchinger (RETIRED) 2003-12-19 08:25:02 UTC]

Works here. No complains during the last week. Closing the bug.