From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Feb  7 08:18:04 2003
Subject: Re: command history
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: Brian Merkey <merk0028 at umn dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:17:20 +0100

What version of OS X, XFree, octave etc.? How did you install it? What 
happens if you run octave in Terminal.app instead of an xterm?
It should work, mine does;-)

/Per

On fredag, feb 7, 2003, at 05:51 Europe/Stockholm, Brian Merkey wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm running octave under Mac OS X and am wondering how I can get 
> functionality to edit the previous command.  For example, in gnuplot I 
> can press the up-arrow to go to the previous command, but octave does 
> not register the keypress as an action and instead just shows the 
> control sequence (^[[A).  Neither up-arrow nor control-p work, and I 
> have tried several terminals to see if that is the problem (I'm using 
> xterm and vt100).  Is there something else I could try?  Thanks for 
> the help.
>
> Brian
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