1) I would like to know why it is overwriting my prompt Because every non-printable characters have to be escaped by \[ and \] otherwise readline cannot keep track of the cursor position correctly. You must put \[ and \] around any non-printing escape sequences in your prompt. Without the \[ \] bash will think … Read more
Recent “unreleased” versions of tmux do automatically recognize those xterm-style key sequences once you have your terminal sending them (no need to change your terminfo entry). The next release version (1.8?) should also have this support. With an appropriate build of tmux1, all you have to do is bind the keys in your tmux configuration: … Read more
I see many interesting details but no direct answer to the question asked. The ‘hierarchical’ version of ldd is lddtree (from app-misc/pax-utils): $ lddtree /usr/bin/xmllint xmllint => /usr/bin/xmllint (interpreter => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2) libreadline.so.6 => /lib64/libreadline.so.6 libncurses.so.5 => /lib64/libncurses.so.5 libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2 libicui18n.so.49 => /usr/lib64/libicui18n.so.49 libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/32/libstdc++.so.6 ld-linux.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux.so.2 libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/32/libgcc_s.so.1 … Read more