On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010 01:02:04 +0300, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: >> For some reason the output of my terminal at times seems to put the >> first character of a line as the last character of the previous line. >> This occurs with x11/Terminal x11/Eterm x11/xterm and probably others. >> As far as I could tell this does not not occur on console but I have >> not tested as thoroughly. > > Do you have any idea what sets $COLUMN for your terminal session? > I don't have this variable defined neither in xterm or text mode > console. I'm unsure - I believe this is bash or zsh - the problem occurs with both of them
> When you state "at some times" for this strange shifting to happen, > what programs are affected, for example, or is terminal output > affected in general? this often happens with ls output - but not all the time - it seems only when ls doesn't do one column output this. Maybe $COLUMNS setting interferes with > something... Even I change it I still get the same problem. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"