Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> 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.
What sort of terminal are you using? If it's a program, what is the
name of the program? This sounds like a traditional terminfo problem.
James.
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