Fixed a potential infinite loop. First delete any chars after the

cursor, then delete everything before it.  Before this, we would just
delete everything before the cursor and freak out if there were still
chars left (i.e. stuff after the cursor).
 -Erik

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/shell/cmdedit.c b/shell/cmdedit.c
index 5cd43ae..515685f 100644
--- a/shell/cmdedit.c
+++ b/shell/cmdedit.c
@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ void input_backspace(char* command, int outputFd, int *cursor, int *len)
 {
 	int j = 0;
 
+/* Debug crap */
+//fprintf(stderr, "\nerik: len=%d, cursor=%d, strlen(command)='%d'\n", *len, *cursor, strlen(command));
+//xwrite(outputFd, command, *len);
+//*cursor = *len;
+
+
 	if (*cursor > 0) {
 		xwrite(outputFd, "\b \b", 3);
 		--*cursor;
@@ -534,7 +540,10 @@ extern void cmdedit_read_input(char* prompt, char command[BUFSIZ])
 					  rewrite_line:
 						/* erase old command from command line */
 						len = strlen(command)-strlen(hp->s);
-						while (len>0)
+
+						while (len>cursor)
+							input_delete(command, outputFd, cursor, &len);
+						while (cursor>0)
 							input_backspace(command, outputFd, &cursor, &len);
 						input_home(outputFd, &cursor);