Rt Ibmer wrote:
Hi - I use a SSH client to access my Fedora 8 core box. When I was using the RELEASE built I was able to use left/right/up/down/home/end keys within mclient to edit the line. For instance I could push up arrow to have it automatically cycle through the previous lines, and then use left arrow to move over to a part of the line and process to change it.
That all worked fine under the RELEASE build.
However now that I have built from source the nightly stable (as of a couple nights ago) I can no longer use these keys. For instance when I press UP arrow it simply adds "^[[A" to the line. Other arrow keys / home /end do something similar.
Not sure but I think something broke regarding this at some point between the released build and the stable nightly. Thanks.
The configure step in the build figures out if you have the readline library available. If so, it uses it, if not, not. It is the readline library that provides the functionality you're now missing.
I don't know what system you're using, but on Fedora the needed package is called readline-devel.