terminal command line weirdness

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Bill Gradwohl wrote:

>> What sort of terminal are you using? If it's a program, what is the
>> name of the program? This sounds like a traditional terminfo problem.
>
> I'm just opening a terminal window in Gnome, and keying in standard console
> commands. Nothing fancy.
>
> The default windows size is 80x24. Key in a bunch of commands (ll will do)
> to fill up the empty screen. Then key in a long command that wraps back
> around to the start of the same line, BUT DON'T HIT ENTER. Now resize the
> window a bit smaller, then a bit larger using your mouse, and watch the line
> crawl up the window. That's just one of the crazy symptoms.
>
> Long commands become a real headache when you retrieve them from history as
> that crawling up the screen happens and you can't read the whole command
> line to attempt to modify it.

Can you try chaning your prompt and see if this happens?

  export PS1='${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}>'

<and now do the resize experiment>

Satish