Re: lynx-dev libreadline

[brian j pardy]

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>  I'm not familiar with libreadline as programmer, but as a user (of
>  bash for example :) I wish to warn you - readline behaviour is:
>  when user input is longer than screen, next line (and so on) are
>  used for displaying user input (I don't know whether this could be
>  turned off programmatically). Such behaviour will make screen
>  looking confusing (user input is scrolled in current implemenation
>  of prompts in lynx).  

That's true.  AFAIK it can't be disabled in .inputrc, I just did a
quick skim of my readline manpage, but I think I have an old version.

If it can't be disabled, we may have to just consider that an artifact
of using readline and warn about it.  

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