On Monday 16 September 2002 11:24 am, Peter Horst's voice rose above the ones in my head and declared:
> I'm trying to enter a longish sequence of commands in bash 2.05 (RH > 7.2, gnome-terminal, $TERM=xterm); after I've entered around 50 > characters, the command line wraps back onto itself, overwriting its > own beginning. The behavior when I access the command line history > with C-p or the up-arrow is even less satisfactory. Is this bash, > readline, > gnome-terminal, or none of the above? 2048 characters, but this can be configured. I'm not sure where. > > Is there a way to make the command line extend all the way to the > edge of my xterm (~150 chars), or at least wrap sanely onto a new > line? Try putting a \ at the end of the line. That should tell it to carry on to the next line without breaking the line. -- Tom Wilson Reg. Linux User #199331 "Weaseling out of stuff is what separates us from the rest of the animals.....except the weasels." -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
