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

[Devin Homan]

Chet Ramey <address@hidden> writes:

> 
> 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.
> 

You seem to have reproduced the bug. I originally posted this on a
Gentoo forum thinking that this was a Gentoo specific issue. eix was a
bad example being a distro specific command. But you still got the same
result with 'echo readline'. The specific command does not matter, all
that matters is the expansion. If I execute 'echo echo' (to put that
command into the history buffer) with 'set horizontal-scroll-mode on'
in .inputrc, and then do a reverse search for that command with 'Ctrl-r
e' to search for a previously executed command having the letter 'e' and
then tab complete, I get 'echo echoecho' with the cursor at the second
'e'. When I hit enter I get the result for the command 'echo echo'.
With 'set horizontal-scroll-mode off', when I do the reverse search and
hit tab, I get the correct result 'echo echo' with the cursor at the
second 'e'. horizontal-scroll-mode is just supposed to prevent line
wrapping when text exceeds the terminal display width, so that the
screen is moved horizontally, which it does correctly.