Re: Not setting TERM explicitly wraps commands at 80 columns with nested shells in xterms using sh + bash?

From: Martin Sugioarto <martin_at_sugioarto.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:00:02 +0200
Am Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:40:05 -0700
schrieb Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com>:

>     If I fire up an xterm without setting TERM={ansi,vt100,xterm},
> etc, xterm wraps my command output to 80 columns, even if I resize the
> window to something larger, issue reset (which I thought was supposed
> to fix the console settings by rescanning the window size, etc). I
> thought that SIGWINCH was also supposed to force a proper rescan if
> the terminal application had a handler installed. This isn't new (I've
> been seeing it since 8.x or 9.x, but it's just gotten to the point
> where it irritates me enough that I thought I should check around
> first).

Hi!

Is this related to the problem, that if you reconnect to sysutils/screen
(screen -r) while a port is in the "make config" phase e.g., you see
garbled output on wide monitors?

--
Martin

Received on Fri Oct 21 2011 - 12:00:12 UTC

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