Terminal Command Line Editing

[Alex Katebi]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Alex Katebi <alex.katebi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I recently created a KVM virtual machine which runs the ubuntu-server.
> The
> > boot or console terminal does not have any command line editing features
> > like up/down arrows for command history and no ctl-end or ctl-a etc. What
> > package gives a terminal these features? Is it ncurses and readline?
>
> I don't think it's a specific package as much as it is your terminal
> settings.  When you use it, what does "echo $TERM" return?


I can do the "echo $TERM" when I go home later. But what are getting at?


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> Brian
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