Just curious if anyone out there using Ubuntu (or Gnome) has experienced this mondo annoying bug: when typing out a long line of text into gnome-terminal, instead of it wrapping down to the next line, it either overwrites the beginning of the current line, or overwrites the line above the current line.
Resize the terminal and size it back again, and it’ll be fixed.
If you resize the terminal while not in a bash shell, bash doesn’t know that the line wrap has changed, so it wraps incorrectly.
I believe OS X’s Terminal.app does the same thing, but I may be wrong there. To recreate, just less /etc/passwd, resize the terminal, exit less, and type in a really long command.
Ah, the joys of retrofitting fixed-size physical terminals into a world of virtual terminals…
Ha, yeah, I kind of stumbled upon that myself (as I added to the Ubuntu Forums thread), but that seemed like a lucky side-effect.