auto-complete going on a diagonal -- "set print-completions-horizontally on => "equals diagonally"

[Linda Walsh]

When I go for auto complete now, the filenames no longer line up:

Ishtar:/suse132> ls e17-
e17-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm                     
e17-branding-openSUSE-0.1-10.1.
2.x86_64.rpm      e17-branding-upstream-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm   
e17-devel-0.1
7.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm               e17-doc-html-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm
    e17-profiles-openSUSE-20131019-2.1.4.noarch.rpm  
e17-theme-a-os-agust-v3-1-
2.1.9.noarch.rpm       e17-theme-a-os-detour-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm         
e17-them
e-a-os-green-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm          
e17-theme-a-os-miguel-v3-1-2.1.9.noarch
.rpm      e17-theme-a-os-vision-v3-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm      
e17-theme-darkness-81
195-2.1.9.noarch.rpm        
e17-theme-default-0.17.6-2.1.10.x86_64.rpm       e17
-theme-edjy-1-2.1.9.noarch.rpm                
e17-theme-openSUSE-20131101.1-2.1.
9.noarch.rpm
Ishtar:/suse132> ls e17-
---
A bit more investigating, and it looks like it streaming out the filenames
with NO LF's (it's all one big long string if I copy it from a window that
supports wrapped lines as contiguous -- vs. windows cmd, above.


Either way, it's not putting out any line endings.

From the number of spaces, it looks like it is thinking my
terminal is 98 or 49 spaces wide (i.e. resizing the window
makes the names line up at those values).  But it doesn't
like my old fashion 80-wide term.

I'm thinking maybe some library is messed up, since I don't recall changing
anything in my bash setup recently.

-- Closest thing was changing the
set print-completions-horizontally to 'on' in .input.rc ----

Uhoh, that does affect it, but then the sort order is messed up.

i.e.

ls <complete>
a                  f               k               p                 u   
              z
b                  g               l               q                 v   
    
....
instead of
a                  b               c               d                  
e                  f
....

So how can I get horizontal sorting order without it being all one line?