Long input lines do not start on next line down

[Cesar Araujo]

Hello,

The terminator that i love has a small bug.
Im on ubuntu 16.04 (seen happen on other versions to) and some times my terminator does not change the command to a new line. I will try to explain here.

If i try to type a command like "echo this is my command and then put a lot of S letters in the end it will overwrite the beginning of the command and will not go to a new line.

This is the command i will type in the bash terminal (ubuntu default, or on a new session of terminator)

echo this is my command ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss end

It should be viewed like this:

echo this is my command ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
ssssssssssssssssssssssssssss end

but instead it is viewed on terminator (when the bug is happening which is a lot for me)
ssssssssssssssssssssssssssss endssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

See it does not wrap the content to a new line, instead it overwrites it and keeps going so on...
until it gets annoying when you try to view the last command and it overwrites all in a single line..

I which i could be more helpful but this is not always, a lot but not always.

Im on gnome-session-flashback (gnome 3) on ubuntu 16.04 (up to date) with terminator 0.98.

12 Gb of ram on an AMD FX(tm)-9370 Eight-Core Processor × 8 whit graphics Gallium 0.4 on NVD9.

I will reproduce the bug with the -d option enabled

[global_config]
  enabled_plugins = InactivityWatch, ActivityWatch, LaunchpadCodeURLHandler, APTURLHandler, Logger, LaunchpadBugURLHandler
[keybindings]
[layouts]
  [[default]]
    [[[child1]]]
      parent = window0
      profile = default
      type = Terminal
    [[[window0]]]
      parent = ""
      type = Window
[plugins]
[profiles]
  [[default]]
    background_darkness = 0.92
    background_image = None
    background_type = transparent
    foreground_color = "#4e9a06"
    palette = "#000000:#cc0000:#4e9a06:#c4a000:#3465a4:#75507b:#06989a:#d3d7cf:#555753:#ef2929:#8ae234:#fce94f:#729fcf:#ad7fa8:#34e2e2:#eeeeec"
    scroll_on_output = False
    scrollback_infinite = True

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Do you have a fancy prompt? Usually this kind of thing happens when people haven't properly bracketed the escape codes used to use sepcial characters and multiple colours. This ends up with a bad interaction that sounds like what you're seeing.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Oh, and I highly recommend you try moving to the gtk3 branch, as everything (esp. the libvte terminal widget) is much newer.