Terminal input does not wrap correctly, or at all

grill_gus

For a while now, I've had this persistent issue on all my terminals, from the gnome default and tilda which I both use to ones I just gave a quick whirl, where my input will overwrite the start of its own line when it should wrap, and only wrapping on the next line. Pressing Ctrl-A to return to the start of the line will instead return me somewhere up in the line before my first input line, from which any more input just gets very weird. Because...

Originally asked by leod on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It's possible your terminal is not recognizing the window size correctly. I found a related question in U&L Stackexchange , and someone suggested the below way of checking whether this is what's going on: Type shopt | grep checkwinsize If the output is not: checkwinsize on You can use shopt -s checkwinsize to activate. To deactivate: shopt -u checkwinsize

Full answer by Hee Jin: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1020938 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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