Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990722104828.24835.rocketmail@web116.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 06:48:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: AW: bash history not avail from arrow keys To: "erskine, michael" , "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Michael, are you sure that Tim's answer works? The reason the .bash-history file isn't working is due to a bug in the readline library when dealing with \r\n line endings. Patches have been posted to the list. Earnie. --- "erskine, michael" wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Many thanks; that has shown me the way... > > C-P & C-N do work (I didn't know about these gems!) and the arrow keys > on the numeric keypad work also (with num-lock off - I hadn't tried > them!). The PC-keyboard arrow keys still don't do anything but that's > not so bad because I am now equipped with C-p & C-n or the numeric > keypad. > > You have all been most helpful - bless you. > > Michael. > > --------------------------- > Tim wrote... > > Hi, > > A couple of things to check: > 1. Do Control-P and Control-N work to retrieve Previous and Next > history commands? > 2. Do your other arrow keys (left and right) work when editing the > command line? (I seem to remember that on my old notebook, the arrow > keys only worked when Num-Lock was turned off.) > > Tim > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com