William Kendrick wrote:
>
> Ever since I started using this Debian box here at work, I've had
> an issue that I attributed to gnome-terminal, which is the xterm-ish
> thing I run under X.
>
> Well, I decided to test it, and discovered the issue is actually the
> shell's fault.
>
> Here's the problem, if I type more than a line's length of text, while
> the text does wrap to the left, it does NOT go a line down.
>
> So, for example, if I wanted to do this:
>
> atari~> mv some_file_with_a_really_long_name.txt /some/really/long/and/involv
> ed/path/to/another/directory/
>
> It visually APPEARS like this:
>
> ed/path/to/another/directory/eally_long_name.txt /some/really/long/and/involv
>
> >:^(
>
> It does this not just in gnome-terminal, but also from the virtual
> consoles.
>
> I'm running GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
> under Debian 2.2. Is there some ENV-var I can tweak to make it work _right?_
>
> Thanks!
>
> -bill!
Search the Bash-Prompt-HOWTO for the env vars PS1, PS2. From the man page:
PS2 The value of this parameter is expanded and used as
the secondary prompt string. The default is ``>
''.
I think something like export PS2='\n> ' will do what you want,
but only if you break long lines with a \, so maybe this is a
setterm -linewrap on
or
setterm -term linux
type of thing. Hmmmm, those don't reproduce the behavior on
_my_ bash xterm. It's prolly something set from within debian's
default .bashrc somewhere, though.
Chuck Polisher
