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 http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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