Establishing Proper Line Wrapping

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 02:10:35PM -0700, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   When I cd to a subdirectory several levels down, or try creating a very
> long command line, it is wrapped, but also truncated on the left side.

Sounds like a broken prompt setting - how do you generate your prompt, and
are you properly using \[ when you need it for example?

>   With vanilla rxvt I'd see the entire lines. With urxvt this occurs no
> matter how wide I make the terminal window.

Are you sure you are setting TERM to rxvt-unicode and not another
terminal? (rxvt should normally work too). Are you sure you installed
it? Are you sure your (ba)?sh actually uses terminfo and isn't compiled
with termcap instead (then you need to create a termcpa entry)?

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