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GNU Screen -- horizontal scrolling

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Problem

I've been trying to figure this out -- the goal is to scroll horizontally in GNU Screen. (In order to avoid ugly line wrap in the result of CLI mysql queries.) If you do: Now you can scroll up and down with and , respectively. But how do you scroll right and left?

Error Output

screen -h 5000 # 5000 lines history
Ctrl-a r # to disable horizontal wrap
mysql -u user -p
SELECT * FROM db.big_fat_table LIMIT 500;
Ctrl-a [ # to en…

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Fix for: GNU Screen -- horizontal scrolling

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I don't think turning the option off does what you think it does. Here's what my man page shows for the option: This is a low-level terminal feature and isn't related to horizontal scrolling. However, has a feature that might help you, the switch al…

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