Terminals crap on greater than 80 columns

Posted Jun 5, 2004 7:56 UTC (Sat) by glettieri (subscriber, #15705)
In reply to: Terminals crap on greater than 80 columns by jwb
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to terminal emulators

In bash, just do:

shopt -s checkwinsize

Don't think this is the problem smoogen was having, though...

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Terminals crap on greater than 80 columns

Posted Jun 5, 2004 14:43 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (1 responses)

another option: maximize the window, and restore (pressing alt-F10 twice, in default icewm settings).

Terminals crap on greater than 80 columns

Posted Jun 5, 2004 15:06 UTC (Sat) by glettieri (subscriber, #15705) [Link]

I guess my previous post was a little bit cryptic :)
You don't have to type that command each time readline goes out of sync with the window size. If you turn the 'checkwinsize' option on, bash will chech the window size after each command. Put the 'shopt -s ...' in your rc file and the problem is gone forever...