On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, brian j pardy wrote:
> 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.
That would be completely unacceptable (for anyone, I would think). Gain
some benefit (which I don't really see) for the price of completely
messing up the display? It doesn't make sense.
That said, try the following experiment anyway:
TERM=dumb bash
Klaus
