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_Gandalf_

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Registered: 2006-01-12

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Irritating terminal issue [SOLVED]

Hi,

I have an irritating problem with my terminals, when the line go beyond the terminal width, it doesn't go to the next line, but begin at the beginning of the same line, it is very irritating for long commands coz it all get mixed up.
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.Xdefaults
.inputrc

any ideas ??

Thx

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smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

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Re: Irritating terminal issue [SOLVED]

You need to tell your shell which characters are visible and which not (escape-sequences for colors for example). In Bash you can enclose these within [ ]. See E3 in the Bash FAQ.

For example, this would be correct:

PS1="[e[1;34;40m[e[0;36m]u@h:w[e[1;34;40m]e[0;37;40m] $[e[0;37;0m] "

whereas

PS1="e[1;34;40m[e[0;36mu@h:we[1;34;40m]e[0;37;40m $e[0;37;0m "

is wrong.

phrakture

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Re: Irritating terminal issue [SOLVED]

Try

shopt -s checkwinsize

then retry.  Typically the failed wrapping is caused by bash not knowing the size of the window.  checkwinsize causes bash to recheck it after every command.

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_Gandalf_

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 735

Re: Irritating terminal issue [SOLVED]

You need to tell your shell which characters are visible and which not (escape-sequences for colors for example). In Bash you can enclose these within [ ]. See E3 in the Bash FAQ.

For example, this would be correct:

PS1="[e[1;34;40m[e[0;36m]u@h:w[e[1;34;40m]e[0;37;40m] $[e[0;37;0m] "

whereas

PS1="e[1;34;40m[e[0;36mu@h:we[1;34;40m]e[0;37;40m $e[0;37;0m "

is wrong.

They were all enclosed except the last one (it seems I forget it) Thanks a lot for pointing this out

Try

shopt -s checkwinsize

then retry.  Typically the failed wrapping is caused by bash not knowing the size of the window.  checkwinsize causes bash to recheck it after every command.

I already have it phrak but the problem was the one above, thanx anyway

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