[ale] line wrapping in terminal

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

John,

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 00:23, John Wells wrote:
> gnome-terminal has this nasty habit of wrapping lines, truncating or
> whatever you'd call it.  If you type a line that's fairly long (I think
> approx. 78 chars including prompt), it will blank the line, add a little
> "<" character at the end to let you know you've wrapped, and then start
> displaying text at the beginning of the line.

	Actually, that sounds like bash is doing that, not gnome or the
terminal emulator.  There's a setting in the readline stuff.  Check out
the readline docs for more info.  Sorry I can't help more off the top of
my head, but this should at least get you into the right neighborhood.

-- 
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medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny


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