[CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

[Kwan Lowe]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I really like gnu screen and use it everyday but there's one thing
> that is a bit inconvenient, and that's the odd line wrapping and
> terminal size issues that seem to pop up.  The problem crops up when I
> type or paste a really long command, and then go back and try to edit
> it; the text starts to wrap over itself and you have no idea what you
> are editing.  Any fixes for this?


You wouldn't by any chance be using PuTTY to access the session?  If
so, you may need to play around with the terminal settings including
the scroll type so that it displays correctly.  I don't recall the
specifics but a similar thing happened to me.