David Shaw wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> What you want is >>> >>> set horizontal-scroll-mode off >>> >>> Check your /etc/inputrc and ~/.inputrc files. The default (used to be) >>> off. If you have a line like >>> >>> set horizontal-scroll-mode on >>> >>> in eitehr /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc, then that's the likely culprit. >>> >> Of course! Thanks of the reminder. We have that in LFS Section 7.7. >> We might want to consider putting that into the Section 6.6. Creating >> Essential Files and Symlinks so it is available early. >> >> We'd probably only need >> >> echo "set horizontal-scroll-mode off" > /etc/inputrc >> >> and explain that it will be fleshed out in Chapter 7. >> >> >> -- Bruce > > > I think I must have done something horribly wrong in that case as even > if I put in the entire /etc/inputrc file as given in chapter 7, the > <expletive deleted> thing still scrolls for me :-( > > And, yes, I tried 'exec /bin/bash --login +h' and leaving and reentering > the chroot environment. I even rebooted the whole PC in case that might > have some effect.
Hmm. We don't do readline in Chapter 5, so /etc/inputrc won't be picked up until after section 6.28. I think, but I'm not sure that it will get picked up automatically, but you may have to do Chapter 6 Bash and/or exit chroot and reenter. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
