On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:04:35PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:39:23PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]) 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, ...
hmm. i use 132 (wide) x 30 (high) for my rxvt and i only notice
this symptom (as i understand your description) with shell
prompts where the prompt has colorization or title-bar-set
escape sequences built-in.
oops. i just tried it (my current tcsh prompt string is
%{^O\e[44;37;1m%}%n:%{\e[37;40m%} %~%{\e[0m%}%# so it gets quite
hairy in spots) and the display worked like an intuitive CHAMP!
even with embedded tabs (^V^I) and wraparound, and uparrow,
leftarrow, downarrow, etc. also worked fine in psql (which has a
very elemental prompt, no escape sequences at all).
one of us has a goofy setting somewhere. (i'm using potato...)
[really, i have noticed what i think you're talking about, but
right now i can't replicate the symptom. odd!]
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