Using a terminal window, quite often I execute very long command line statements that don't use all the space on the right of the command line before they wrap on to the beginning of the same line and obscure the start of that line. It overwrites the PS1 prompt string and then overwrites the start of the command I'm working on. Anyone that's keyed in a long command line knows what I'm talking about. If you haven't, open a terminal window and just key in 2 commands: echo hello echo 'Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.' The long one will demonstrate my point. If I up arrow to retrieve the short echo command it starts working its way back up the terminal window. Attempting to alter a long command retrieved from history sometimes builds a pyramid of rubbish that also walks up the terminal window. This has happened since RH7.1 that I'm aware of. Anyone know how to fix this? -- Bill Gradwohl YCC (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected E-mail www.stomperware.com
