On Fri, Dec 10, 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> I'm not familiar with libreadline as programmer, but as a user (of
> bash for example :) I wish to warn you - readline behaviour is:
> when user input is longer than screen, next line (and so on) are
> used for displaying user input (I don't know whether this could be
> turned off programmatically). Such behaviour will make screen
> looking confusing (user input is scrolled in current implemenation
> of prompts in lynx).
That's true. AFAIK it can't be disabled in .inputrc, I just did a
quick skim of my readline manpage, but I think I have an old version.
If it can't be disabled, we may have to just consider that an artifact
of using readline and warn about it.
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