[ale] line wrapping in terminal

[John Wells]

gnome-terminal has this nasty habit of wrapping lines, truncating or
whatever you'd call it.  If you type a line that's fairly long (I think
approx. 78 chars including prompt), it will blank the line, add a little
"<" character at the end to let you know you've wrapped, and then start
displaying text at the beginning of the line.

Anyone know how to stop this behavior?  If you're deep in the directory
structure, or typing a looong series of piped commands, it can drive you
crazy.

Check out a screenshot at http://www.sourceillustrated.com/screen.jpg. 
Notice the "<" in the terminal's current line, even though there's pleny
of real estate available.

Thanks as always,

John



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