Odd commandline wrapping.

[Rec]

A strage problem developed with my commandline about a week ago. I did a world update before it started happening. I'm not sure if it's a bash, readline, xterm (gnome-terminal), or configuration error. This is what happens.

If I type a line longer than about 1/4 the width of my term, it then wraps, but not onto the next line, but the current one. It ends up looking like this:

ld -pveternity: bob ]# emerge -u wor

This is with 80 char width.

app-shells/bash-completion-20040704-r1 *
app-shells/bash-3.0-r5 *
sys-libs/readline-5.0 *
x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.6.1-r1 *

If anyone could shed some light on this problem, or needs any more information to help, please let me know.

(P.S. I just checked, and this behavior happens in vanilla xterm as well)

[jftuga]

If you use bash, try putting this into your .bash_profile and/or .bashrc:

shopt -s checkwinsize

From the bash man page:

checkwinsize
If set, bash checks the window size after each command and, if necessary, updates the values of LINES and COLUMNS.


-John

[Rec]

Added it to .bash_profile, logged in again, checked shopt. That option is now enabled, but it's still having the same problem.

Thank you, though, for the tip.

[stahlsau]

This problem often appears if s/o modified his prompt with errors. For example those color-tags have to look like this: [\033[35m\].
Try to remove all that stuff from your .bashrc or profile, and lookout if the problem is gone.

[Rec]

Thanks, that fixed my problem. I have a thing in my prompt that sets the xterm title, and that was what was causing it.

For anyone interested, this is what my .prompt file looks like (I source .prompt in my bash configs)