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Bug#359687: xterm: fails to start new line when typing long commands



On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:00:28PM +0200, Daniel Blaschke wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 210-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> When typing a long command, xterm fails to jump to a 
> new line. Instead it starts "overwriting" the beginning of the 
> command, though this is only on the screen: the command works 
> nevertheless. Also this only happens right after opening a new xterm-window:
> When typing another (long) command, the line breaking works fine.
> I had the same problem in versions 208-3.1 and 210-2 but not in the old
> version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 (sarge).

...and this appears to be an issue only for bash users, and has been reported
before.  iirc, there's a bash setting which has to be tweaked to make it work.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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