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Subject: Re: horizontal-scroll-mode off in bash
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> Reply-To: "Boris New" <new AT psycho DOT univ-paris5 DOT fr>
> From: "Boris New" <frenchtouch2 AT ifrance DOT com>
> 
> Here is my _inputrc file:
> 
> set horizontal-scroll-mode off

Seems like a DJGPP-specific misfeature: this works for me on
GNU/Luinux, but not on DOS/Windows.

From looking at the sources of the Readline library (used by Bash and
GDB to implement the CLI user interface), I'm guessing that the DJGPP
terminal support lacks the features that are required by the no-scroll
option: it needs to wrap long lines instead, so it needs to know
terminal commands to do that.  If the DJGPP terminal emulation doesn't
supply those commands, Readline will continue horizontal scrolling
even if you turn horizontal-scroll-mode off (it is documented to be
OFF by default, btw).

Volunteers are welcome to fix that and submit the changes to the
Readline maintainer.