[SM-Discuss] readline woes?

Paul Mahon dufflebunk at dufflebunk.homeip.net
Mon Aug 30 11:03:14 EDT 2004


This problem is familiar to me. Last time I investigated it it was
something I did wrong with my prompt. I can't remember what it was
though. I'll keep trying to remember.

On Mon, 2004-30-08 at 14:17 +0200, Lyon Lemmens wrote:
> fellow SMGL users,
> 
> is anybody experiencing wierd line wraps since the last update of the
> readline library?
> 
> my xterm, konsole and even a normal console window will wrap the first
> line at some arbitrary point:
> 
> wraps here
> 
> [obelix:/home/llemmens] V
> 
> llemmens> lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 
> 
> llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
> 
> It appears to depend on the length of the prompt: If I go to a deep
> directory:
> 
> [obelix:/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/calendar/skin/classic/calendar]
> 
> llemmens> lllllll
> 
> llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
> 
> And then if I go even further it looks as if my stack is overwritten:
> 
> [obelix:/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/calendar/skin/classic/calendar/timepicker]
> 
> fd /wapsw-setcabs cd ..lllemmens> lllllllllllll
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> this is junk that appears out of the blue and changes on each next
> character entry.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Lyon Lemmens
> 
> redlemon at knoware.nl
> 
> _______________________________________________
> SM-Discuss mailing list
> SM-Discuss at lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-discuss/attachments/20040830/8e694dbf/attachment.bin 


More information about the SM-Discuss mailing list