Re: Readline versus wide xterms
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 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?
My prompt is $ for users and # for root.
I see this particular problem with any readline program: bash, mysql,
pgsql, perl -MCPAN -eshell, ...
-jwb
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