Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040406141200.037c0bb0@127.0.0.1>
X-Sender: lhall:pop DOT theworld DOT com AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:14:37 -0400
To: "Scott, Steven" <sls AT marshall DOT usc DOT edu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: rxvt line wrapping
In-Reply-To: <C9533BB98C6EE344A13752ADFB77228F04A3E007@msbmail.marshall. usc.edu>
References: <C9533BB98C6EE344A13752ADFB77228F04A3E007 AT msbmail DOT marshall DOT usc DOT edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
X-IsSubscribed: yes

At 02:04 PM 4/6/2004, you 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?


Check your TERM?  FWIW, with the information given I couldn't reproduce
your problem.  Perhaps you should visit <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
if you need further assistance from the list.


--
Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746                     


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/