[ale] line wrapping in terminal

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Mon Oct 7 08:40:04 EDT 2002


Ah.

In that case, I'm using pdksh.  I'm betting the same applies.  I'll take a
look at readline.  Thanks!

John


Danny Cox said:
> John,
>
> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 00:23, John Wells wrote:
>> gnome-terminal has this nasty habit of wrapping lines, truncating or
>> whatever you'd call it.  If you type a line that's fairly long (I
>> think approx. 78 chars including prompt), it will blank the line, add
>> a little "<" character at the end to let you know you've wrapped, and
>> then start displaying text at the beginning of the line.
>
> 	Actually, that sounds like bash is doing that, not gnome or the
> terminal emulator.  There's a setting in the readline stuff.  Check out
> the readline docs for more info.  Sorry I can't help more off the top of
> my head, but this should at least get you into the right neighborhood.
>
> --
> kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
> medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
>
> Danny




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