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On 6/21/19 12:03 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> I seem to have this enabled, as far as the GUI shows, along with reverse |
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> wraparound |
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If it's enabled (checked) in XTerm's menu, then the feature is enabled. |
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> not sure what the reverse wraparound does. |
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"reverse wraparound" is when you backspace off the left side of one line |
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and the cursor goes to the far right of the line above. |
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> However, lines do not wrap around when I resize the xterm window. :( |
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I've never seen this work inside of XTerm. |
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I /have/ seen screen (running in XTerm) reflow the text when the window |
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is resized. But that is /screen/ doing it, not XTerm. And by doing it, |
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it's creating new data for XTerm to display. |
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> Well, when I anything, I tried shrinking the window width and when |
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> it became narrower than my bash prompt then the prompt only started |
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> wrapping around! |
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That's the shell reacting to the new terminal window width. (Much like |
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screen above.) |
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> The rest of the content (I had just run the 'ls' command) would not change |
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> from its originally displayed line width. |
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XTerm (and many other consoles) only display the output as it was given |
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to them. They don't change the output when the window changes. So if |
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they are given 80 characters of text on one line and 35 on the next |
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line, XTerm (et al.) display those two lines of text, even on a wider |
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window. |
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XTerm is not aware (cognizant of the fact) that the 80 characters and |
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the 35 characters are related to each other. |
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If you resize the window smaller, XTerm drops the characters between the |
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new width and the old width that it had. It no longer has them to |
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display when you widen the window back out. |
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> These are the flags I have installed x11-terms/xterm-337 with: |
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> openpty truetype unicode -Xaw3d -toolbar -xinerama |
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> The same problem applies to other xterm based terminals, on various |
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> installations of mine, but as I mentioned rxvt works as I expect/prefer. :-/ |
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I am not, and have not, been aware of an XTerm option to reflow the text |
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when widening (or narrowing) the window. |
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