[9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands

[9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands

[James A. Robinson]

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Hi folks,

I can't spot anything in the man page about this:  is
it expected that Acme win will echo the trailing part
of a Send command if the length of the command
exceeds 75 characters?

An example:

  http://highwire.stanford.edu/~jimr/acme-win-76.png


Jim

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Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands

[James A. Robinson]

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D'oh, I'm thinking maybe it's bash that is doing
this (since bash is my default shell instead of
rc).


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 PM, James A. Robinson <
jimr@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I can't spot anything in the man page about this:  is
> it expected that Acme win will echo the trailing part
> of a Send command if the length of the command
> exceeds 75 characters?
>
> An example:
>
>   http://highwire.stanford.edu/~jimr/acme-win-76.png
>
>
> Jim
>
>

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Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands

[erik quanstrom]

On Thu Sep  5 16:19:19 EDT 2013, jimr@highwire.stanford.edu wrote:

> D'oh, I'm thinking maybe it's bash that is doing
> this (since bash is my default shell instead of
> rc).

it's likely readline, which has an 80-column mind.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands

[Rob Pike]

Try

set +o emacs

(sic)

-rob

Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands

[James A. Robinson]

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2013/9/5 Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>

> Try
>
> set +o emacs
>
> (sic)
>

Thank you, that did it.  Interesting that it's a +o command
to turn something off.

bash(1)
...
READLINE
       This  is  the library that handles reading input when using
       an interactive shell, unless the --noediting option is given
       at shell invocation.  By default, the line editing commands
       are similar to those of emacs.  A vi-style line editing
       interface is also available.  To turn off line editing after
       the shell  is  running, use the +o emacs or +o vi options
       to the set builtin (see SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).
...

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Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands

[Rob Pike]

You give a shell command the flag -X to turn on X, so +X to turn off X
makes sense in a negative true kinda way.

-rob

Re: [9fans] Acme win and 75+ character Send commands

[Bruce Ellis]

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just don't forget to unset nonomatch


On 6 September 2013 14:10, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:

> You give a shell command the flag -X to turn on X, so +X to turn off X
> makes sense in a negative true kinda way.
>
> -rob
>
>

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