From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22697 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2018 16:56:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Seq: 23114 Received: (qmail 28263 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Feb 2018 16:56:08 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mta03.eastlink.ca by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(24.224.136.9):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 12.736564 secs); 06 Feb 2018 16:56:08 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: rayandrews@eastlink.ca X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=dfKuI0fe c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=RnRVsdTsRxS/hkU0yKjOWA==:117 a=RnRVsdTsRxS/hkU0yKjOWA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=GkBYsdx3awMDUiW_tgsA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-EL-IP-NOAUTH: 24.207.101.9 To: Zsh Users From: Ray Andrews Subject: multios screen width issue Message-id: <3e3eabb0-c37f-41db-3966-a92306787aa8@eastlink.ca> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 08:55:53 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Content-language: en-CA     $ aptitude why "grep" >&2 >! /_output _file If I do the above in a narrowish terminal, the first line of output (" i   hibernate ...") is forced to wrap due to being rather long, but all subsequent lines are double spaced.  If the terminal is wider such that the first line does not wrap, then neither are there double spaces, OR, if I use:     $ aptitude why "grep" ... the wrapping is always correct, even if the terminal is narrow -- the first line wraps but the subsequent lines are single spaced.  This is interesting because the issue of screen wrapping seems like it would not be effected by the addition of redirection to a file, since in that case line length issues would seem irrelevant, yet it interferes with proper line wrapping on the screen.