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From: mcgill-vision!iros1!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard)
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Subject: && causing bash to dump core, varia
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Date: 9 Jul 89 12:03:42 GMT
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   From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
   Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
   Date: 29 Jun 89 14:08:59 GMT

Salut, cher confre`re :-)

   c) Can the &#^*%&! insertion of a * at the beginning of the prompt
      when a line is edited be turned off?  it appears as well that
      only the prompt is shifted as well, which is disconcerting if
      not wrong.

What's wrong with this?  bash is telling you: there is now an
undo-list for this command.  This information might be useful,
especially when you move back in the command history.

I'm sure that the author had to seek a way to display this
information.  What would you have choosen instead?  Effectively, I
have been ``disconcerted'' when I saw this * for the first time, but
only disconcerted by a subtle wave of pleasure (:-).

-- 
Franc,ois Pinard                                    pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
(514) 588-4656           ``Vivement GNU!''          ...!uunet!iros1!pinard