rxvt line wrapping

Thu Apr 8 19:51:00 GMT 2004

Scott, Steven 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?
>> Steve

Try removing all control codes from your prompt (PS1)
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