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Any way to fix screen's mishandling of line wrap? (Maybe only Terminal.app)

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Mar 15, 20268001 views
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Problem

I'm having an issue using screen and Terminal.app. If I get a bash prompt at the bottom of the screen and I keep typing until the line wraps to the next line, I see the next line, but I do not see the line above this one change. Here's a visual way of illustrating my problem. The | represents the r…

Error Output

$ asdf                        |
bash: asdf: command not found |
$ example example example     |

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Fix for: Any way to fix screen's mishandling of line wrap? (Maybe only Terminal.app)

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Success! I tried the suggestion from here: https://serverfault.com/questions/272818/screen-not-dropping-down-a-line which is to add: to your and restart screen. This changes screen's scrollback behavior to something probably better for my average us…

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