[erlang-questions] Line wrapping issue when attaching to running node

Lukas Larsson garazdawi@REDACTED
Sat Dec 27 18:53:29 CET 2014


I think this might be a bug that was introduced in 17.0, that has been
fixed in 17.4. See OTP-12275 in the erts release notes.

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Karolis Petrauskas <k.petrauskas@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the same problem and I have no solution for it. I think it is
> related to the terminal specified when starting the node (not when
> attaching to it).
>
> The only workaround I found was to type commands in a text editor and
> copy/paste them to the terminal.
>
> Karolis
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Camille Troillard <lists@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We are experiencing an annoying problem in integration or production
> environment that deals with incorrect line wrapping when connecting to a
> remote shell.
> >
> > Erlang version:
> > Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10]
> [kernel-poll:false]
> >
> > Installed on FreeBSD using the `erlang-17.3_3,3` package.
> >
> >
> > We generate a release using rebar. When we want to interact with it, we
> attach to the system like so (assuming the release is named “abc”) :
> >
> >     $ ./rel/abc/bin/abc attach
> >
> >     (abc@REDACTED)1>
> >
> >
> > In this situation, whenever you write something that exceeds the width
> of the terminal (typically 80 columns), the line wraps onto a second line,
> which is OK.  But if you have an open parenthesis on the first line, that
> is closed on the second line, then the output becomes garbled, text
> overwritten and it is no longer possible to sanely use the shell.
> >
> > This is an example of expected output:
> >
> >     (abc@REDACTED)1>
> this_is_an_example_of_a_long_module_name:call_this_function([1
> >     , 2, 3, 4], another_arg).
> >
> > And the actual output (the cursor is on the first line at column 2):
> >
> >     .abc@REDACTED,
> another_arg)an_example_of_a_long_module_name:call_this_function([1
> >     , 2, 3, 4]
> >
> >
> > Text garbling occurs as soon as I hit the first ‘]’. It also occurs on
> ‘)’.
> >
> > It does not happen when typing into an erlang shell that was launched
> using `erl` directly.
> >
> > It seems to happen to_erl. The same erratic behaviour is seen when
> attach to a release running on FreeBSD or OS X.  It does not matter whether
> the console is running locally or via SSH.  Also, it does not seem to
> matter wether the TERM variable is set to ansi, vt100, xterm or
> xterm-256color.
> >
> >
> > I would like to know if someone noticed this problem, and how to fix it.
> >
> > Thanks !
> > Camille
> >
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