Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/06/02:10:58
On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Chris A. Triebel wrote:
> Quick question. I have found all the ^? commands that allow you to move
> up and down the history list. Is it possible to map these commands to
> the arrow keys. Another thing is that the command line is not editable
> even on the first time it is entered. I have to backspace over
> everything or use fc if it is in the history list. Can this be altered
> or is it built into bash to remain that way?
If arrow keys in your version of bash don't work, get a newer port. This
feature has been introduced in the latest releases. An announcement of
the latest release was posted to this news group about a week ago.
> I just noticed that the bash that is on our systems at work don't have
> these problems.
Are those Unix systems? If so, then arrow keys there work differently:
they actually produce streams of ASCII keys, whereas on MSDOS these keys
don't have ASCII codes at all.
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