Re: Scrolling instead of wrapping?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 02:37:29PM -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> I'm finding that when I have a long one-liner, bash 4.4 will scroll
> horizontally instead of wrapping to the next line.  Some people may prefer
> this behavior, but I don't.

Usually this happens when bash can't find what it wants in your terminal
database (terminfo or termcap).  This in turn is typically caused by one
of two things:

 * When you compiled, bash couldn't find your terminal libraries.  In
   this case, try installing the -dev or -devel packages for your
   operating system's terminal libraries (e.g. libncurses5-dev).

Installing libncurses5-dev and recompiling fixed it for me.

Thanks.