Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrew DeFaria Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM To: cygwinatcygwindotcom Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get

Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an example. C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80 characters bash does som ething like this? Now set my prompt to the

RE: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-29 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
.) -Original Message- From: Andrew DeFaria Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an example. C09-272

RE: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrew DeFaria Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM To: cygwinatcygwindotcom Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when

Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-23 Thread Ashok Vadekar
I get the behaviour even if I comment out all the complex PS1 definitions in /etc/profile. To see it, open a bash (windows console, I don't know about rxvt) and resize it to be larger than the 80x25 (mode.com con lines=50 cols=120). Then type away (at a prompt) and see that the text will wrap at

Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Which OS? Win9x console is pretty much braindead. Cygwin's programs (notably bash) have code for processing a SIGWINCH, which they should receive whenever a window (console or otherwise) that they're running in gets resized. However, the code for sending this signal will only detect a *window*

Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-23 Thread Ashok Vadekar
It was XP in my case. The stty -a followed by a kill -WINCH my-bash-pid works (even with a mode.com based resize). Thanks for the insight. I hope the original poster gets something out of this too. On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:13:05AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Which OS? Win9x console is

RE: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: Ashok Vadekar Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 5:13 PM It was XP in my case. The stty -a followed by a kill -WINCH my-bash-pid works (even with a mode.com based resize). Thanks for the insight. I hope the original poster gets something out of this too. Trying to add some more

Line breaks in bash

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an example. C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80 characters bash does som ething like this? Now set my prompt to the

Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:34 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote: When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an example. C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80 characters bash does som ething like this?

Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-22 Thread AJ Reins
--- Andrew DeFaria wrote: When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get confused when it passes the first 80 character barrier and does a newline. Below is an example. C09-272-A:# why is it in bash that when I get close to typing 80 characters bash does som ething like