on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:39:23PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org) 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? Try setting your prompt to something basic (e.g.: '$ '), and note if that resolves the issue. See the Bash-Prompt HOWTO for more info. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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