On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@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.

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