[erlang-questions] How to disable parentheses matching in Erlang shell?

[Joshua Barney]

It seems unlikely that erlang shell is broken only for you on all these systems.
Have you checked that your shell scripts are not setting COLUMNS? Perhaps you are ssh-ing from a client that is doing something not quite right?

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> On May 14, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Grzegorz Junka <list1@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 14/05/2016 21:19, Kenneth Lakin wrote:
>>> On 05/14/2016 03:32 AM, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
>>> Fixing my terminal to 80 characters only seems like taken straight from
>>> the Windows world. I hope Erlang can do better ;)
>> If ncurses can't determine your terminal size, then falling back to
>> 80x24 makes a lot of sense. Do other ncurses-based programs behave
>> incorrectly?
> 
> No. Everything else is fine. This problem is not related to my system, as I have seen the same behaviour in Erlang running on FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Red Hat and CentOS in different terminals, like putty, cygwin and Konsole.
> 
>>> Is there any way of
>>> telling the Erlang terminal how wide is my terminal, e.g. an environment
>>> variable?
>> On my system, it looks like the environment variables LINES and COLUMNS
>> correspond to the current size of my terminal window. When I set COLUMNS
>> to a value that does not match the window's current size, then the
>> Erlang shell's paren matching bounces the cursor backwards to the wrong
>> place (but back forwards to the right place). Maybe this will be the
>> band-aid you need.
> 
> I don't have such environment variables in my system and I don't remember having them on Ubuntu or Red Hat (however I can't double-check that now)
> 
>> However, it might be more useful to fix whatever is preventing ncurses
>> from determining the terminal size.
> 
> Yeah, and even more useful if the Erlang shell allowed me to disable a feature that isn't really necessary especially if it isn't working correctly.
> 
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