so i use urxvt exclusively and do not suffer this problem. what version are you using? i have
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:02, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > In an earlier thread on this mail list I figured out that the reason UTF-8 > did not display properly in virtual terminals and alpine is that rxvt does > not support UTF-8. And xterm doesn't support some options I use, plus even > the developers wrote that it's rather bloated and ancient. So, I went > looking for a virtual terminal that supports UTF-8 to replace rxvt. Turns > out that aterm, eterm, st, and mrxvt don't. But, urxvt (or rxvt-unicode in > terminfo) does. But, there's one major problem that _I_ am experiencing with > urxvt that has so far escaped resolution. > > A couple of days ago I discovered that there's a urxvt mail list, > subscribed, and posted a request for help. That's the only message on that > list since I signed up. Apparently it's a ghost mail list, like the Flying > Dutchman. > > One person on the slackware mail list has tried helping, but so far it's > not resolved the problem. I've added 'urxvt*loginShell: true' to > ~/.Xresources, created ~/.inputrc (including /etc/inputrc) with the line > 'set horizontal-scroll-mode On' and exported that file. Logged out and back > in each time. > > urxvt works fine except for not properly wrapping long lines. The result > is quite distracting and annoying. I find nothing appropriate on the man > pages or the wiki. > > When I cd to a subdirectory several levels down, or try creating a very > long command line, it is improperly wrapped, and also truncated on the left > side. Example: > > [rshepard@salmo ~]$ cd GIS/GRASS/grass-6.5svn/ > </configure --with-postgres -- > <s --with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-freetype --with-cxx \ >> --with-geos=usr/bin/geos-config --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \ > <ython-config --with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \ > > With vanilla rxvt I'd see the entire lines. With urxvt this occurs no > matter how wide I make the terminal window. > > I'm hoping the collective expertise here can guide me to a resolution of > this problem. I don't know what other virtual terminals for the bash shell > support UTF-8 and yet use few resources while being configurable. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
