[ale] line wrapping in terminal

[John Wells]

Danny,

It seems you were on the right track.  While pdksh's behavior doesn't seem
to be affected by modifying inputrc, I was looking through the bash man
page and ran across the "set -o vi".  I had no idea you could change
bash's editing mode to vi!

So, I'm trying bash out...I like the whole readline concept.  However,
when playing around with inputrc to modify behavior, it doesn't seem to be
setting everything correctly.  To test horizontal-scroll-mode, I set it in
both /etc/inputrc and ~/.inputrc to on, but it still seems to be off. 
I've exited from X and kill all shells and relogged in...still the same
behavior.

However, I can do:
echo "set horizontal-scroll-mode on" > /tmp/myinput.$$
bind -f /tmp/myinput.$$

and it works.  Am I missing something here?  Shouldn't readline behave
according to the settings in either /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc?

Thanks for all the help!

John

John Wells said:
> Ah.
>
> In that case, I'm using pdksh.  I'm betting the same applies.  I'll take
> a look at readline.  Thanks!
>
> John
>
>
> Danny Cox said:
>> John,
>>
>> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 00:23, John Wells wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> 	Actually, that sounds like bash is doing that, not gnome or the
>> terminal emulator.  There's a setting in the readline stuff.  Check
>> out the readline docs for more info.  Sorry I can't help more off the
>> top of my head, but this should at least get you into the right
>> neighborhood.
>>
>> --
>> kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
>> medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
>>
>> Danny
>
>
>
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