On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:39:23PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Does anyone know what it is that makes readline eat itself when a terminal > > is very wide? > > > > Example: make an xterm 120 chars wide. Type in some long command that > > spans more than one line. Now up arrow to the prev command and back arrow > > through it. You'll notice that the display gets out of sorts. > > It's usually a bash prompt issue. You got anything funky in there, > particularly nonprintable color or highlight directives?
My prompt is $ for users and # for root. I see this particular problem with any readline program: bash, mysql, pgsql, perl -MCPAN -eshell, ... -jwb
