Eterm and line wrapping

[Guest BooYah]

Eterm can't seem to handle line wrapping at the bash prompt when it's not in a maximumized window. Instead of wrapping, the cursor goes back to the begining and starts overwriting the same line. The whole command goes though, but things get ugly when I try to go back in history to resuse or edit or a previous command.

 

Anyone else had the same problem?

[iphitus]

This has happened to me in aterm when i have resized the window since it was created. ANyone got anyideas? because it can be very irritating

[liquidzoo]

I've never had that happen to me in Eterm...that's really weird. Could it maybe have something to do with your dimensions? Have you resized the Eterm window to be smaller than it was the first time it opened?

[mdg]

Do you have a customized bash prompt? After I customized mine, I had the over-writing-on-same-line problem, until I read this:

 

In addition to this change, we need to surround all non-printing characters with special bash escape sequences, "[" and "]". These sequences will tell bash that the enclosed characters don't take up any space on the line, which will allow word-wrapping to continue to work properly. Without them, you'll end up with a nice-looking prompt that will mess up the screen if you happen to type in a command that approaches the extreme right of the terminal.

This is an excerpt from this page.

 

I checked my prompt again and found I'd left out a "[" sequence. Once I put it in, the problem disappeared

 

Edit: I'm using Konsole, but I'm sure the rule holds for Eterm