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jwm-art

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Registered: 2011-02-01

Posts: 87

Badly wrapped long commands in increased-width terminal

A bit of a search has pinpointed Bash as the problem here. I always increase the window size of a terminal and bash doesn't seem to acknowledge this when I enter a command or while recalling commands from history (via up/down arrows) . The problem only surfaces when the command is longer than the initial dimensions of the window.

I use xterm and know I can specify a wider geometry via .Xresourses, but I always encounter commands that are larger than the values I specify and I don't want silly-sized terminals by default. Are there any better work arounds?

I don't seem to see this in Debian.