"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:59:30 -0500: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 25 January 2006 at 10:19:52 -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote: > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>Recently I've noticed my xterm's doesn't seem to be handling line wrapping > >>of > >>commands correctly. Instead of wrapping to a new line the characters start > >>wrapping back on the current line. > > > > > > > > I've noticed this intermittently over a long time. I note that resizing > > the window -- enlarging it by a minute amount -- seems to overcome the > > problem when it occurs. > > Yeah, that sounds like a bash problem. In some cases, if I re-size a > window while a foreground command is executing, then if I edit a command > line that's long enough to wrap, bash doesn't seem to know about the > new window size (it wraps wrong).
shopt -s checkwinsize Why it's not default in bash, I wouldn't have a clue... But this option appears to be set by default in debian in /etc/bash.bashrc, anyway... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
