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My shell prompt replace the beginning of long lines with <
How can I have the long lines visible on several lines ?

user@machine:~$ <s line is a very long one and the beggining is not visible...
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  • FYI this takes all of typing man bash<Enter>/wrap<Enter>... (teach a man how to fish... oh well; I guess SO is a pond as well) Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 10:23

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Reset to default
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Check your inputrc

horizontal-scroll-mode (Off)

When set to On, makes readline use a single line for display, scrolling the input horizontally on a single screen line when it becomes longer than the screen width rather than wrapping to a new line.

The location of that file is governed by the INPUTRC variable:

INPUTRC

The filename for the readline startup file, overriding the default of ~/.inputrc (see READLINE below).

(both quotes from man bash)

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In fact, I was on cygwin with bash version 3.2.48. An update of cygwin with bash 4.1.10 fixed the thing. Thanks a lot for the info regarding inputrc, I'll definitively keep this for later use.
Thanks for the background issues there, that is helpful to all those using Cygwin

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