David Shaw wrote: >> I'm not very pro at this yet, I've been using linux and coding in it, >> but I'm new to LFS. >> Here's a link I came up with and played with, I hope it's what you >> need, I might be completely off. >> If I am, sorry about that. >> >> [0]http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/bash-line-wrapping-problem/ > > Thanks for the link - it led to some very interesting reading. > Unfortunately, it isn't the prompt that's not behaving but the commands > I type in. > > Before switching to the new bash, as compiled in section 6.28, any typed > commands longer than 80 characters would wrap round onto the line below, > so that I could see the entire command all at the same time (actually, > 80 characters minus the length of the prompt, but you get the idea). > > Now, using the newly compiled bash, longer commands cause the prompt and > anything else to disappear off the left hand side of the window, which > means that I can only see the last 60+ or so characters of the command > and need to use the left and right cursor keys to scroll through the > line if I want to see what I've typed (or to find where I've made the > typo when the command fails to work). > > So, yes, thank you for the link; I learned something from it. But, > unfortunately, my problem persists.
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