|> Hi,
|> did not you change your screen resolution? Readline library used by
|> bash reads screen size only at startup and if you change screen resolution
|> (mainly screen width) after bash starts, it does strange things because
|> of real cursor position does not match with position computed by readline.
|> For example, if readline thinks that line start is one line up and twenty
|> backspaces (because of you typed 100 chars with COLS=80) and you now have
|> COLS=120, it gets printed one line above at column 80...
|> I do not know any other workaround than restarting bash session.
With bash 2.x you can do "shopt -s checkwinsize".
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