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Re: [Bug-readline] [6.3] horizontal-scroll always on


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] [6.3] horizontal-scroll always on
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:53:53 -0500
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On 11/10/15 11:50 AM, Dario Niedermann wrote:
> Il 10/11/2015 alle 17:08, Chet Ramey ha scritto:
> 
>> I can't reproduce it.  Is bash linked against ncurses or libtinfo?
> 
> libncurses.so.5, according to ldd's output. I have ncurses version 5.9.
> 
>> If you don't have something like this installed, bash won't know how
>> to move around the screen and will default to horizontal scrolling.
> 
> This makes me think: Do I also need a termcap file in /etc? Because I'm
> only using the terminfo database at the moment.

No, you just need to link with a library that understands how to read
whatever terminfo/termcap database you're using.

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