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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:43:55 -0400
From: Ashok Vadekar <avadekar AT certicom DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash
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I get the behaviour even if I comment out all the complex PS1 definitions in
/etc/profile.  To see it, open a bash (windows console, I don't know about rxvt)
and resize it to be larger than the 80x25 (mode.com con lines=50 cols=120).
Then type away (at a prompt) and see that the text will wrap at ~80 characters.
Now, export COLUMNS=120.  Same problem.  Now, launch another bash from this
console, and resize it to 120 wide.  Finally, it does the right thing.

So, it seems that COLUMNS needs to match the width of the screen, AND something else that only happens (by default anyways) when a new bash is started.  Maybe
someone else knows what that might be?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:37:18PM -0700, AJ Reins wrote:
> --- Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> > When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when 
> > it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an 
> > example.
> > 
> > C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80 
> > characters bash
> >  does som
> > ething like this?
> > 
> > Now set my prompt to the hostname as 
> > "\[\e]0;\w\a\e[01;33mC09-272-A:\e[0m". Could this be causing the problem?
> 
> Yes. You have a \[ to indicate non-printing characters without the closing \].
> 
> > -- 
> > I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
> Me too! (sorry about that! (acutally I'm not, but lets not quibble over tribbles!))
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