[Techtalk] multiple lines in the prompt

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> How come Eterm sometimes writes over itself in a two line command (at the
> prompt) but sometimes it correctly creates a new line? It seems to happen
> after I've been in vi/mutt. Is there something I can explicitly set so
> that it always know to write the second line on a new line?

I've had the same thing happen on my xterms and aterms, and it's quite
frustrating! Typically I've found it when I up-arrow back to a long
command and try to edit something near the start.

Does anyone know how to stop this behaviour?

-- Carlo