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Date:      Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:01:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Ben J. Cohen" <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Bash bug when typing long lines?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812081055240.259-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>

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Hi!

There seems to be a glitch in bash when typing lines longer than one
screen-width.  

When you do this, the cursor wraps back to the start of the line, but does
not go down a line, so you overtype the beginning of the same line.

This appears to occur only in xterms, not on ttyv*, and doesn't occur for
sh or csh.

Is this a known problem, and can it be cured?
Is it because I'm using the wrong termcap entry for xterm?  (I am using
TERM=xterm, though the same happens for xterm-color.)

Thanks,

Ben.


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