Im trying to customize my prompt as well as with the editing mode at the prompt. But i’m having some troubles with the non-printing characters in the variable vi-cmd-mode-string and vi-ins-mode-string.
~/.inputrc:set show-all-if-ambiguous on set completion-ignore-case on set print-completions-horizontally on set horizontal-scroll-mode on set colored-stats on # vi style keystrokes set editing-mode vi set show-mode-in-prompt on set vi-cmd-mode-string 1e[42;30m2cmd1e[0m2 set vi-ins-mode-string 1e[43;30m2ins1e[0m2 "C-n": menu-complete "C-p": menu-complete-backward TAB: menu-complete
When i enter Bash it starts in insert mode, when i press Escape the place of the mode it just prints some of the characters literaly from the variables. They are enclosed between 1 and 2 so what did do wrong? Everything as i readed in the manual is right isn’t? Here is an demonstration of the issue:
This just happens when I use the 1non-printable_sequence2. I’ve already enclosed all the string in quotes (") and nothing.
- Bash version: 5.2
- Terminal emulators: Tilix v1.9.4 and Windows Terminal v1.20.11781.0
Both showed the same thing. Don’t think they have something to do with it. - OS: Ubuntu 22.04
P.S.: resizing the emulator window it works again.