Re: rxvt line wrapping

["quarto" <quarto at thuntek dot net>]

Scott, Steven wrote:

> Greetings,
>  
> I'm having two related problems with how rxvt wraps long command
> lines.  Consider the small awk program (the first part is my prompt):
>  
> ~/research/multilogit/data/eip-symptom[557]   awk '{for(i=1; i<=3;
> ++i) printf("%s ", $i)}' longfilename.txt  
> (1) Rxvt wraps the line at some point (presumably column 80) even if
> the rxvt screen is much wider than 80 columns.  The 'resize' command
> has no affect on this behavior.  (2) when the line wraps, rxvt does
> not begin a new line.  It overwrites the beginning of the old line,
> which is very confusing.  As a result, typing my little program in
> rxvt produces:   ", $i); printf("\n")}' symptom-sorted.txt] awk
> '{for(i=1; i<=3; ++i) printf("%s
> 
> Very confusing!!!
> Is there something I can do to get better line wrapping behavior?
>  
> Steve

Try removing all control codes from your prompt (PS1)


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