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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:58:51 -0500
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To:        Carsten Fuchs <crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome-Terminal - odd behaviour while typing
Message-ID:  <20070310125851.GB1752@saltmine.radix.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070310134800.a1eb88f1.crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de>
References:  <20070310134800.a1eb88f1.crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de>

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +0100, Carsten Fuchs wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> My gnome-terminal has this annoying habit of jumping at the beginning
> of the same line when i'm entering a command and the cursor reaches a
> certain column (not the last column possible, there's always a quarter
> or so of the line left blank); it doesn't put the cursor on a new line
> but at the beginning of the same line, thus overwriting that line.

Sounds like a problem with the prompt string (iirc for bash users, that's
remedied by escaping the chunk of text that doesn't print using \[ and \]).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net



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