Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Scrolling instead of wrapping? Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:13:44 -0500 Lines: 17 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1448284463 24450 208.118.235.17 (23 Nov 2015 13:14:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Bash - Bug To: Dan Stromberg Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11921 On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 02:37:29PM -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > I'm finding that when I have a long one-liner, bash 4.4 will scroll > horizontally instead of wrapping to the next line. Some people may prefer > this behavior, but I don't. Usually this happens when bash can't find what it wants in your terminal database (terminfo or termcap). This in turn is typically caused by one of two things: * When you compiled, bash couldn't find your terminal libraries. In this case, try installing the -dev or -devel packages for your operating system's terminal libraries (e.g. libncurses5-dev). * At run time, bash can't find a terminfo/termcap entry for your $TERM variable. In this case, check that TERM is set correctly. See if you can run "infocmp".