Re: no up arrow command history

Aaron Davies <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Eric Smith <es-uQVgsefbNdNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> For more than a year now, screen does not give me the option of
> cycling through history with the up/down arrows in colon mode.
> 
> Till now I was not sure if this was a blessing or a curse.
> Now I want it back.
> 
> What could be up here?

what's your TERM setting?

what happens if you type Ctrl-v, then up-arrow? the most common result
is "^[[A".

these are the sort of things that screw up arrow-based history in the
shell, they might affect screen as well
-- 
Aaron Davies
[email protected]
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