writing in terminal: when reaching EOL, no linefeed. Instead overwriting same line
 

Hi,

When I write long commands or paste text etc (in a vt) and reach end of line, you normally continue on the next line,
like this.

Instead, when reaching EOL in a vt (tried terminal (xfce), Konsole and rxvt), cursor is moved to beginning of line but no linefeed.

Normal behaviour
In my case
This started when I switched to fluxbox from KDE. In KDE things was working fine (only used Konsole though).

When writing text spanning several lines I notice first lines' EOL stops/is twelwe characters short of a full line.
Consecutive EOLs' does produce linefeeds.
Moving cursor back to begining of text with the left arrow key is wierd. Don't ask me to try to explain that if I don't have to :-)

I've googled without result.
Read http://lwn.net/Articles/88243/
Tried `resize`, shopt -s checkwinsizes + more

Maybe has to do something with bashrc, terminfo, resize, SIGWINCH, $TERM etc?

It is really annoying :-)

I need some guidance...

I believe this is what you are looking for... It corrects broken line wraps in BASH...

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...bash+wrap.html

or, your PS1 variable is messed up, look here:

http://www.usenet-forums.com/linux-g...ap-around.html

Jeff

Hi

Thanks for replying.

I already tried the "shopt -s checkwinsize" from the first link, without success.

The second link did it.

I had changed my $PS1 variable to include colors, but not done the proper escaping of the "[".

Thanks again.