Bash colored tab completion blinks!

[qsmodo]

Hello,

I emerged app-shells/bash-completion, which works as expected. Then I created .inputrc with a single line:

• set colored-stats on

The problem is that some completions blink! It is just unbearable.

For example,

• $ sudo disp<TAB><TAB>
  dispatch-conf display

Both suggestions appear in a red background and a white foreground, but blinking (the foreground color is now white, now red). Shell built-ins, such as if, case and while, also blink.

The manual says that for colored-stats "the color definitions are taken from the value of the LS_COLORS environment variable". However the blinking does not go away if I do

• export LS_COLORS=

The same happens with an empty .bashrc file, so where possibly could the problem be located? Can you reproduce the behavior? Any hints in fixing this would be much appreciated.

[CaptainBlood]

qsmodo,
Welcome to Gentoo.

Blind testing here.
Created .inputrc as described.

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sudo disp<TAB><TAB>
dispatch-conf    display          display-buttons  display-coords

is returned in white letters on red background.

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echo $LS_COLORS
rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.tzst=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.wim=01;31:*.swm=01;31:*.dwm=01;31:*.esd=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.webp=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.cfg=00;32:*.conf=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.ini=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:

Incidentally PgUp/PgDwn doesn't browse history anymore, but display <~> character (tilde).

Sorry not to propose any fix, but only reporting how it works here.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.

[qsmodo]

Thank you CaptainBlood for the support and welcoming (Gentoo rocks!), that's very kind of you. Apparently you didn't get the blinking then?

This one is looking hard to decipher. Colored-stats worked fine on Debian, so I'd think it not to be my configuration files.
For the time being, I'll settle for

• set colored-stats off
  set colored-completion-prefix

[CaptainBlood]

You're welcome.

Apparently you didn't get the blinking then?

Indeed.
My test was with urxvtc.
Testing with lxterminal and console didn't change text coloring.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.