Neofetch: Unexpected backslash being inserted into title variable upon Neofetch launch
Description
For some reason, a backslash is being inserted into the title variable, so the title shows up as kamran\@Aurora instead of kamran@Aurora. I know my username doesn't have a backslash in it, so that's not an issue. I have no idea why this is being caused. The issue happens in both Apple Terminal, and iTerm 2. My config file, and the verbose log, are attached below as a gist link.
Neofetch version
3.3.1-git (Homebrewed)
Screenshot
Config file & verbose log
KamranMackey
All 16 comments
It looks to me like this is an issue with your color settings. Does this occur with --config off?
dylanaraps
on 1 Apr 2018
What's the output of these commands?:
echo "$USER"
whoami
echo "${HOME##*/}"
echo "$HOSTNAME"
hostname
It happened even with Apple Terminal, and I didn't change any configuration settings for neofetch or my color settings aside from adding the "weather" thing and uncommenting a few things for the base config. Also the color settings in iTerm at the time were left at defaults too. I'll run those commands later though when I get the chance. At the moment I'm booted into Windows.
KamranMackey
on 2 Apr 2018
No longer on macOS due to my hard drive corrupting a couple days ago, so until I get macOS reinstalled, I can't test this. Closing for now, will re-open once I find the time to get macOS re-installed.
KamranMackey
on 8 Apr 2018
I'm able to reproduce this issue, ill see if I can figure out when it started
iandrewt
on 8 Apr 2018
Because this is confirmed bug, I'm reopening this issue.
konimex
on 8 Apr 2018
The relevant lines haven't been edited since 2016. Any idea on how to actually diagnose this?
iandrewt
on 8 Apr 2018
It can be the coloring part that triggers the extra backslash, like ${title_color}, ${bold}, or maybe ${at_color}.
konimex
on 8 Apr 2018
8c277ac74aaefbeb4981838acb60c62036ddbf4a is the most relevant thing I can find, from December 2017
iandrewt
on 8 Apr 2018
Try to change all \\e to a \e. I tested it and it works on Linux but I don't know whether it will work on Mac.
Also, changing it to \e triggers SC1117.
konimex
on 8 Apr 2018
Yeah that worked for me. The @ symbol lost its colour and bold from doing that too.
iandrewt
on 8 Apr 2018
I think that was intended since the output for Mac is the same in my testing (granted, it is a Linux system but since we're using bash it should have a similar output apart from fonts or colorscheme)
konimex
on 8 Apr 2018
Do you get the backslash when using \\e?
iandrewt
on 8 Apr 2018
Not in Linux, but I tested it somewhere else and found out this bug is also happening in an AIX server and my Solaris VBox.
This may also happen in BSDs, I'll edit this post later if I found out it does happen there too.
konimex
on 8 Apr 2018
It's an issue with bash 3.2, if bash is installed from homebrew (4.4) the issue doesn't occur
iandrewt
on 8 Apr 2018
Fixed. Please reopen this issue if the issue still exists on master.
konimex
on 10 Apr 2018
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It happened even with Apple Terminal, and I didn't change any configuration settings for neofetch or my color settings aside from adding the "weather" thing and uncommenting a few things for the base config. Also the color settings in iTerm at the time were left at defaults too. I'll run those commands later though when I get the chance. At the moment I'm booted into Windows.