Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:56:15 +0000 (GMT) From: "Ben J. Cohen" <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bash bug when typing long lines? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812082050570.17032-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812081227550.909-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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>>There seems to be a glitch in bash when typing lines longer than one >>screen-width. >>When you do this, the cursor wraps back to the start of the line, but does >>not go down a line, so you overtype the beginning of the same line. > >I don't think it overwrites the line. It just shifts the stuff you have >written to the left so you can read the tail end. Use the left arrow to >back up and see if this is the case. No, this doesn't seem to be the case; in fact, since if you do that the line that was overwritten appears on the preivous line up, it seems to confirm that this is wrong. Is it likely that I have set something up wrong? I think it was the default configuration, though. Note that this still happens when I run screen under xterm with bash; does this suggest that the problem is with xterm (or my xterm definition)? Incidentally, I am running FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE and I had the same problem with the May(ish) 3.0 SNAPshot. I installed Debian Linux (briefly!) on Friday and it didn't have the same problem. Thanks, Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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