* Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 1:08am]: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:08, Mark wrote: > > On Monday 16 September 2002 11:24 am, Peter Horst's voice rose above > > the ones in my head and declared: > > > > > I'm trying to enter a longish sequence of commands in bash 2.05 (RH > > > 7.2, gnome-terminal, $TERM=xterm); after I've entered around 50 > > > characters, the command line wraps back onto itself, overwriting its > > > own beginning. The behavior when I access the command line history > > > with C-p or the up-arrow is even less satisfactory. Is this bash, > > >readline, gnome-terminal, or none of the above? > > > > The problem you've got, which I've seen on my system, is that you've made > > the shell window too wide. narrow the width to around 80 columns, and it'll > > wrap correctly. > > I think that the problem actually occurs when you resize your terminal > while running a curses-based application. For instance, say you're > running emacs (or vi...) in a terminal and resize the window to see the > wide lines of text better. Emacs will capture information regarding the > resize, and re-draw its own borders and text in the new terminal size. > However, the shell knows nothing of this, since it's not in control of > the terminal when you resize the window. When you exit emacs, the > terminal is no longer in the state expected by the shell. The solution, > then, would be to always resize your terminals when you're at a shell > prompt, or to configure your application launcher to tell the terminal > to be bigger in the first place: > gnome-terminal --geometry 110x35
Bingo. It didn't even register, when I wrote my initial query, that I had resized the terminal window. Pretty spiffy diagnostics. Thanks very much... -- Among you I became so truly reasonable, learned so thoroughly to distinguish myself from what surrounds me, that now I am solitary in the beautiful world, an outcast from the garden of Nature, in which I grew and flowered, and am drying up under the noonday sun. -- Hölderlin, "Hyperion" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
