Re: [Bug-readline] Bug: horizontal-scroll-mode on

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/3/15 3:23 AM, Devin Homan wrote:
> There seems to be a bug in sys-libs/readline.
> 
> In my .inputrc file, when I have
> *Code:*       
> set horizontal-scroll-mode on 
> 
> 
> History tab completion (that is Ctrl-r <some text> [tab]) does not flow the
> text correctly.
> So for example, if I have
> *Code:*       
> eix readline  
> 
> in my history and do "Ctrl-r l [tab]", I get
> *Code:*       
> eix read lineline     
> 
> .
> Pressing enter issues the "eix readline" command.

I can't reproduce this.  The potential redisplay issues aside, if you
have a file named `readline' in the current directory, or if the
completion for `eix' returns `readline' as the only alternative, the
word should expand to readlineline (or readline/line if readline is a
directory).  Completion always takes place at the current cursor
position, and the reverse history search leaves the cursor before the
character found (`l').  When I replace `eix' with `echo', I see
`readlineline' displayed as output.

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