I've encountered this before, but now I can reproduce it, and it's surely a
bug rather than a misunderstood feature (but it could well be a window
manager or terminal emulator bug rather than a bash bug). I have on a few
occasions been scrolling back through my history list when the konsole
window would close and now I can pin it down. There is a particular long
line in my history, when I go back to it with up-arrow, my konsole window
closes. This only happens when the window is larger than its default size
e.g. 70 rows x 90 cols. This doesn't happen with an xterm but there is still
a peculiarity in that my prompt gets mangled and the terminal bell rings
when I pass through that line. I've just observed that the problem also
disappears if I make the terminal so wide that the history line doesn't
cause any wraparound. The wraparound per se can't be the cause though, as
the problem doesn't occur with a smaller terminal window. Versions are
niall at bagend:~ >xterm -version
XFree86 3.3.3.1b(88b)
niall at bagend:~ >bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-suse-linux)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
konsole version 0.9.11
Ideas, anyone ?
Regards,
Niall
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