Terminal thinks start of line is first character of previous line

[Eitan Adler]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
I'm unsure - I believe this is bash or zsh  - the problem occurs with
both of them

> 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?
this often happens with ls output - but not all the time - it seems
only when ls doesn't do one column output
this.

Maybe $COLUMNS setting interferes with
> something...

Even I change it I still get the same problem.

-- 
Eitan Adler