Terminal thinks start of line is first character of previous line

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 21 May 2010 01:02:04 +0300, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> For some reason the output of my terminal at times seems to put the
> first character of a line as the last character of the previous line.
> This occurs with x11/Terminal x11/Eterm x11/xterm and probably others.
> As far as I could tell this does not not occur on console but I have
> not tested as thoroughly.
> 
> echo $TERM $COLUMNS
> xterm 140

Do you have any idea what sets $COLUMN for your terminal session?
I don't have this variable defined neither in xterm or text mode
console.

When you state "at some times" for this strange shifting to happen,
what programs are affected, for example, or is terminal output
affected in general? Maybe $COLUMNS setting interferes with
something...



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