On 11/9/15 10:22 AM, Dario Niedermann wrote:
> Il 09/11/2015 alle 15:22, Chet Ramey ha scritto:
>
>> What is that length?
>
> With an 80-column terminal: 72 typed character, the prompt being 6
> characters long: as soon as the 72nd character is typed, it scrolls. If
> I resize the terminal window, or the prompt changes length, it
> always starts scrolling when the cursor goes (actually should go) to
> $COLUMNS-2, whatever the current $COLUMNS value is.
>
>> And what is your terminal type?
>
> This happens in all my terminals, namely:
I can't reproduce it. Is bash linked against ncurses or libtinfo? If you
don't have something like this installed, bash won't know how to move
around the screen and will default to horizontal scrolling.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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