[PLUG] Establishing Proper Line Wrapping In Virtual Terminal

[chris (fool) mccraw]

you didn't send me 'infocmp rxvt-unicode' output.  that is what i am
most interested to compare to my own.


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 14:54, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
>
>> what version are you using?  i have several, one that works is 9.06 and
>> another is 9.09.
>
>   9.12
>
>> what is the termcap or terminfo for the terminal?
>
>   /usr/share/terminfo/r/ has entries for rxvt-unicode and
> rxvt-unicode-256color.
>
>   I thought someone suggested entries to /etc/termcap that I had put in
> /etc/termcap-BSD, but I find no references to rxvt-unicode or urxvt in
> either of those files.
>
>> hmm, so you think that it is a shell issue, not a terminal issue? (that is
>> what the attempted solution above does.  have you made certain that the
>> shell does in fact become a login shell, listens to
>> .inputrc, and that your xresources are taking effect?
>
>   I've always used the '-ls' option for the virtual terminals. I think it's
> a terminal issue, but I'll try anyone's suggestions to resolve the problem.
>
>> btw, you can "source" the .Xresources file with xrdb like so:p xrdb <
>> ~/.Xresources (then run a new copy of urxvt from any shell or menu or
>> whatever--that affects all of xwin).
>
>   No difference.
>
>> what shell are you using?
>
> bash-4.1.007
>
>> well, if you are worried this is a shell issue, have you tried a
>> different shell so you can verify whether or not it is urxvt at fault?
>> like, install and try zsh or tcsh and see if they behave the same.
>
>   Chris, I assumed it was a terminal issue since rxvt, xterm, and other
> terminals did not exhibit this behavior. When suggestions referencing the
> shell were provided on the slackware mail list I tried them. So, I'm not
> 'worried' this is a shell issue. If I switch back to rxvt the line wrap
> problem goes away. Same shell, same distribution, same everything, but no
> UTF-8 support.
>
>> Rxvt.font:              -sony-*-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>> Rxvt.reverseVideo:      true
>> Rxvt.loginShell:        true
>> Rxvt.colorUL:           Cyan3
>> Rxvt.color4:            RoyalBlue
>> Rxvt.color12:           RoyalBlue
>> Rxvt*saveLines:         10000
>> Rxvt.cutchars:          `()*,;<>[]{|}\
>
>   All I have in ~/.Xdefaults related to rxvt and urxvt are:
>
> rvxt*loginShell:true
> URxvt.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
> URxvt.boldFont: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
> urxvt*loginShell: true
>
> Rich
>
>
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