Re: Problem with console and terminals

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>]

+ DaVinci <bombadil@wanadoo.es>:

|  I have a problem with es and input from console or terminal
|  emulator in Linux.
| 
|  When line lenght is greater than max number of characters, edition
|  doesn't go to next line, but stays on same, corrupting it.
| 
|  Has anybody this problem? Is there some way to repare it?.

You don't say if your es is linked with readline or editline.  And is
your terminal type (in the TERM environment variable) set properly?
If not, you may even need to first set it, then exec a new shell, since
I think readline only examines the environment on startup.

Personally, I use readline and have

set horizontal-scroll-mode off

in my .inputrc, but I think that is more a personal preference than a
fix for any problem.  (My .inputrc is over four years old, so I no
longer know why I put that line in there.)

- Harald