From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id JAA28222 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:32:32 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA01869; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:21:58 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:21:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199606192321.BAA10200@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: Problem with xterm, zsh-2.6Beta20 and OSF/1 To: braemer@doc.physi.uni-heidelberg.de (Achim Braemer) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:21:46 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh workers list) In-Reply-To: <9606192116.AA29834@doc.physi.uni-heidelberg.de> from Achim Braemer at "Jun 19, 96 11:16:35 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"dpEZN.0.7T.Lk8on"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1371 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > > Erwin J. van Eijk writes on June 14: > > I have a slight problem with zsh-2.6Beta20 on OSF/1. The problem is, > > that if I widen an xterm window to, say, 130 chars, and I type a lot > > of stuff in it, after 80 chars the line is cleared, and the cursor > > goes to position 1 in the line. If you do a backspace, the > > cursor wraps to the previous line, and garbling everything. That problem should not occur with beta21. > I have very similar symptoms on IRIX 5.2 with ZSH_VERSION > 2.6-beta13. The problem is not easily reproduceable at all, it occurs > after zsh has been running for a while. When I resize back to a width of > 80 characters line editing is ok again. Now widen again and it breaks > now immediately again. > Very annoying. Do not you use ncurses? ncurses-1.9.8a had a bug which sometimes turned off automargin in xterms. This has a very similar effect. This bug is fixed in ncurses-1.9.9e. The symphtomes are that when you write anything to the screen which is longer than the width of the terminal the line will not wrap (e.g. when you use cat to display a file lines longer than the screen width will be truncated). Zoltan