[PLUG] Establishing Proper Line Wrapping In Virtual Terminal

[chris (fool) mccraw]

so i use urxvt exclusively and do not suffer this problem.

what version are you using?  i have

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:02, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   In an earlier thread on this mail list I figured out that the reason UTF-8
> did not display properly in virtual terminals and alpine is that rxvt does
> not support UTF-8. And xterm doesn't support some options I use, plus even
> the developers wrote that it's rather bloated and ancient. So, I went
> looking for a virtual terminal that supports UTF-8 to replace rxvt. Turns
> out that aterm, eterm, st, and mrxvt don't. But, urxvt (or rxvt-unicode in
> terminfo) does. But, there's one major problem that _I_ am experiencing with
> urxvt that has so far escaped resolution.
>
>   A couple of days ago I discovered that there's a urxvt mail list,
> subscribed, and posted a request for help. That's the only message on that
> list since I signed up. Apparently it's a ghost mail list, like the Flying
> Dutchman.
>
>   One person on the slackware mail list has tried helping, but so far it's
> not resolved the problem. I've added 'urxvt*loginShell: true' to
> ~/.Xresources, created ~/.inputrc (including /etc/inputrc) with the line
> 'set horizontal-scroll-mode On' and exported that file. Logged out and back
> in each time.
>
>   urxvt works fine except for not properly wrapping long lines. The result
> is quite distracting and annoying. I find nothing appropriate on the man
> pages or the wiki.
>
>   When I cd to a subdirectory several levels down, or try creating a very
> long command line, it is improperly wrapped, and also truncated on the left
> side. Example:
>
> [rshepard at salmo ~]$ cd GIS/GRASS/grass-6.5svn/
> </configure --with-postgres --
> <s --with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-freetype --with-cxx \
>> --with-geos=usr/bin/geos-config --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
> <ython-config --with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
>
>   With vanilla rxvt I'd see the entire lines. With urxvt this occurs no
> matter how wide I make the terminal window.
>
>   I'm hoping the collective expertise here can guide me to a resolution of
> this problem. I don't know what other virtual terminals for the bash shell
> support UTF-8 and yet use few resources while being configurable.
>
> Rich
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