On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 01:17:06PM +1300, Jeremy Baxter wrote:
> Hi all, I'm trying to disable the horizontal line scrolling feature in ksh,
> enabled through `set -o vi' or `set -o emacs'. ksh(1) says this about it:
>
> In these editing modes, if a line is longer than the screen width (see
> the COLUMNS parameter), a `>', `+', or `<' character is displayed in
> the last column indicating that there are more characters after, before
> and after, or before the current position, respectively. The line is
> scrolled horizontally as necessary.
>
> Is it possible to completely disable this feature at the moment? Setting
> COLUMNS to a large number "disables" it for the most part but brings in
> other weird behaviours like massive gaps between lines when pressing
> ctrl-u and random newlines showing up when scrolling through history.
>
> -Jeremy
>
Disable both emacs and vi mode:
$ set +o emacs +o vi
-Otto
