[erlang-questions] How to disable parentheses matching in Erlang shell?
Grzegorz Junka
list1@REDACTED
Sat May 14 12:32:57 CEST 2016
Fixing my terminal to 80 characters only seems like taken straight from
the Windows world. I hope Erlang can do better ;) Is there any way of
telling the Erlang terminal how wide is my terminal, e.g. an environment
variable?
On 13/05/2016 09:19, Lukas Larsson wrote:
> I don't think there is any way to turn of only the brace matching
> feature. You can always use the oldshell, i.e. "erl -oldshell", but
> you loose a lot of other feature that you may want in the shell.
>
> The problem you are experiencing normally happens when the erlang
> shell has a different idea of how wide your terminal is then what it
> actually is. I've found that this can normally be fixed by making sure
> that you have a 80 characters wide terminal window that erlang is
> running in, as 80 is the default if erlang can't find out from ncurses
> what the terminal size is.
>
> Lukas
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Grzegorz Junka <list1@REDACTED
> <mailto:list1@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
> This has been bothering me for quit a while. I am using FreeBSD
> for Erlang development and it happens that in the Erlang shell,
> when I am writing a long command, and say I am closing a bracket,
> the shell automatically jumps the cursor to the opening bracket to
> show me which bracket has been closed. That would be a great
> feature if it worked fine. On longer lines the cursor jumps back
> to some random place and then jumps back to some other random
> place and then the whole shell is messed up. I have to copy the
> command to a text editor, delete all characters from the current
> command line in the shell, edit the command in the editor, then
> copy it back to the shell. When copying the command to the shell
> it doesn't try to jump the cursor and doesn't mess my shell. I
> also saw this behaviour on other systems, e.g. Red Hat. Is there
> any way of disabling this "jumping" feature?
>
> Grzegorz
>
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