Terminal Command Line Editing

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Alex Katebi <alex.katebi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Alex Katebi <alex.katebi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> If the programs running in the terminal don't know your terminal can
>> do things like arrow-keys, then it won't work.
>> Theoretically, you could still be using an old teletype machine as a
>> terminal, or something not quite so ancient that it doesn't know how
>> to handle, so it provides only basic capabilities.
>>
>> man terminfo for some info.
>>
>>
>> On the other hand, I just re-read your original note.  I might be
>> throwing you a red herring.
>>
>> Command history and the readline editing come from bash.  Are you
>> running bash at the point you're trying this?  or just sh or dash?  or
>> maybe some other shell that doesn't use those shortcuts?
>
> When I did "echo $SHELL" it said "bash".

Not that then

And echo $TERM?