Re: reporting a bug: output of a long line, longer than fits on winow-size, breakes bash

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 02:35:40PM +0200, Anton Wessel wrote:
> When a one-liner is long, longer than fits on current window size, then
> problems in bash occure.
> 
> This has nothing to do with what is the contents of the long line.
> 
> Bash is broken by the fact that window size is exceeded.
> 
> I can come to the end of the long line, but I cannot come to the beginning
> of the line.
> 
> The scrolling on the screen, in German "Verlauf", by CTRL-SHIFT-F does not
> work any more.
> 
> The movement of the cursor by the arrow keys is in the upper part of the
> window confused.

Sounds very much like you've added terminal escape sequences to your
shell prompt, without enclosing them in \[ \] characters.  See
<https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/053> and check the content of
your PS1 variable (declare -p PS1).