From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Feb 10 11:14:34 2003 Subject: Re: command history From: Per Persson To: "Michael W. Martin" , Henry Mollet Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:13:48 +0100 Turned out that the problem was caused by a binary install that had been compiled w/o gnu-readline support. Installing from source or via fink instead will solve the problem. /Per On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Michael W. Martin wrote: > > 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. > > Sounds like your terminal setup is not configured properly. I can > freely use the arrow keys in the command line in both X11 (Apple's X11 > dist.) and Terminal. > ------------ Per Persson Blekinge Institute of Technology Dept. of Signal Processing and Telecommunications www: http://www.its.bth.se/staff/pee e-mail: per dot persson at bth dot se ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------