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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