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Re: rxvt line wrapping


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.


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