Is there any way to get ksh to display complete lines when running in a
wide window instead of just printing pieces of the line?

Thanks,
Dave Feustel

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dave <daf@amd.localhost.comcast.net> wrote:
> Is there any way to get ksh to display complete lines when running in a
> wide window instead of just printing pieces of the line?

Yes; occasionally, ksh can get a bit confused [1], but resizing the
window usually fixes that.

Joachim

[1] There is of course a more technical explanation, but I'm not sure I
understand enough of the issues to attempt to give it.

Joachim Schipper <jdNoOtSPAMschipper@math.uu.nl> wrote:
> dave <daf@amd.localhost.comcast.net> wrote:
>> Is there any way to get ksh to display complete lines when running in a
>> wide window instead of just printing pieces of the line?
>
> Yes; occasionally, ksh can get a bit confused [1], but resizing the
> window usually fixes that.
>
> Joachim
>
> [1] There is of course a more technical explanation, but I'm not sure I
> understand enough of the issues to attempt to give it.

I normally have trouble with this when my pwd (printed in the prompt) gets
long when I am 5 levels down in a build file system. But right now I am
editing a 170 character command line 5 levels down in the buiild file system
and the combo is particularly aggravating. I just put the command line in
a script file for editing convenience. I am being plagued by ergoonometric
aggravations today, including problems with my vision. I need new glasses.
But the OS is working well.
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dave <daf@amd.localhost.comcast.net> wrote:

> Is there any way to get ksh to display complete lines when running in a
> wide window instead of just printing pieces of the line?

ksh needs to be made aware that the window size has changed. Normally
xterm should send a SIGWINCH... but somehow this doesn't happen.
Hmm, something to look into.

You can manually tell ksh to pick up the new window size with
"kill -WINCH $$".

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> dave <daf@amd.localhost.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to get ksh to display complete lines when running in a
>> wide window instead of just printing pieces of the line?
>
> ksh needs to be made aware that the window size has changed. Normally
> xterm should send a SIGWINCH... but somehow this doesn't happen.
> Hmm, something to look into.
>
> You can manually tell ksh to pick up the new window size with
> "kill -WINCH $$".
>

That worked and is very handy. Thanks!
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Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

> ksh needs to be made aware that the window size has changed. Normally
> xterm should send a SIGWINCH... but somehow this doesn't happen.
> Hmm, something to look into.

Now that I've looked, I see that I was mistaken. ksh *is* sent a
SIGWINCH. However, it won't take the new window width into account
until the input line after the current one...

> You can manually tell ksh to pick up the new window size with
> "kill -WINCH $$".

.... so just pressing return does the trick, too.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>
>> ksh needs to be made aware that the window size has changed. Normally
>> xterm should send a SIGWINCH... but somehow this doesn't happen.
>> Hmm, something to look into.
>
> Now that I've looked, I see that I was mistaken. ksh *is* sent a
> SIGWINCH. However, it won't take the new window width into account
> until the input line after the current one...
>
>> You can manually tell ksh to pick up the new window size with
>> "kill -WINCH $$".
>
> ... so just pressing return does the trick, too.

This did not work for me. I made konsole window as wude asmy screen
but ksh still printed only partial lines about half the width of
the screen. I think I will disable pwd in the prompt when pwd gets long.

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dave <daf@amd.localhost.comcast.net> wrote:

> This did not work for me. I made konsole window as wude asmy screen
> but ksh still printed only partial lines about half the width of
> the screen. I think I will disable pwd in the prompt when pwd gets long.

Well, then konsole--you mean the KDE terminal emulator, right?--does
something wrong.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de