On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> In /usr/share/terminfo/r/ are rxvt-unicode and > rxvt-unicode-256colors. In /etc/DIR_COLORS I added 'TERM > rxvt-unicode' after learning that 'TERM urxvt' meant nothing to > the system. > > I just added '-tn rxvt-unicode' to the command line; no > difference. Here's what I see when I cd to a deep subdirectory: > > </washington/echo-bay-exploration/bore-holes-wq/ > </washington/echo-bay-exploration/bore-holes-wq/ > < > <q/ > > This is on Slackware-13.1/32-bit running Xfce. It's quite > distracting to see this rather than the wrapped lines that > vanilla rxvt displayed. Hrm... If your prompt works correctly with other terminal programs (i.e., using urxvt is the only difference), I'd say you've hit a bug in urxvt. Out of curiosity, does autowrap work in other contexts, or is it just the shell prompt? What happens if you expand the terminal's window out to, say, 132 columns? Is there a reason to be using urxvt in particular? Something that other terminal programs won't do? If this is a bug in urxvt, I'd say find another terminal emulator. And report the bug to the programmer, of course. For that matter, do you need the entire directory path in your prompt? Putting just the current directory in your prompt would at least be a workaround. --Dale “The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.” --John Kenneth Galbraith, US economist (1908-2006) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
