X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:34:04 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Readline not working anymore in interactive interpreters Message-ID: <20090722153404.GB12969@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A670358.8060504@byu.net> <4A670891.10209@byu.net> <4A670A97.1030800@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 03:01:44PM +0200, Olivier Lefevre wrote: >I was hoping we would not be playing ye olde finger-pointing >game. It used to work and it no longer does yet the interpreter >has not changed. How could it not be an issue within Cygwin? > >I am not asking to take responsibility for non-Cygwin executables >but to offer a hint as to what could possibly cause this failure. The only thing that I can think of that a new version of readline/terminfo/ncurses could effect is the default mode of the the console, if you are using a standard windows console. Maybe the console isn't being reset to "cooked" mode. Have you tried holding down the shift keys when using the arrow key to recall previous commands? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple