On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Dale Snell wrote: > 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.
Dale, I've used xterm, aterm, eterm, and rxvt (my standard the past few years) and did not have this problem before. I wrote to one of the urxvt developers a few days ago but have seen no reply. > 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? I get funky behavior in alpine when composing and sending a reply; alpine resides in a urxvt wrapper. I've tried expanding the window width and it makes no difference. Let me try a huge one (on the 20" wide screen ... as soon as the text gets close to the right margin of the window it wraps, but truncates the leftmost characters. I've no way of telling how many characters, but a couple in any case. I had the window set to 180x25 and could invoke the behavior by cd'ing from one buried subdirectory to another when specifying the entire path from my home directlry. > Is there a reason to be using urxvt in particular? Well, regular rxvt does not handle utf-8; I see strange characters instead. I've read quite a few comparisons saying that if you don't need the DEC and other terminal support of xterm you're better off with a less resource intensive vt such as rxvt. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
