mc inserts printf %b in my history (Ciprian Popovici)

[Reynir Stefansson]

Ciprian Popovici <list at zuavra.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Recently I started getting this problem: whenever I hit Tab to change
> panel, MC (4.6.2, Debian unstable package) inserts a line like this in my
> bash history:
>
> cd "`printf "%b" '\0057'`"
> cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057ciprian`"
> etc.
>
> The actual string varies, and seems to be a representation of the full
> path of the directory in the target panel.
>
> And it also inserts this sometimes:
>
> PROMPT_COMMAND='pwd>&7;kill -STOP $$'
>
> I don't mind how it does what it does here, but I don't want those
> commands added to my history. Makes it a pain to go up in the history or
> reverse-search when these printf's keep being inserted all over the place.
>
> FWIW, I found this while googling for an anwer:
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/mc/subshell-printf.patch
>
> Any idea on how to get rid of those lines being added to my history?
>   

Those lines should have been prefixed with a space to keep them out of 
the history file. Did you install a new shell or something at the time 
the problem began?

Reynir H. Stefánsson (reynirhs at mi.is)
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