Re: no up arrow command history

> > 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.
>
Thanks Aaron
I just saw this now for the first time!.

> what's your TERM setting?
[eric@pepper ~] $ echo $TERM
xterm-256color

> what happens if you type Ctrl-v, then up-arrow? the most common result
> is "^[[A".
^[OA
> these are the sort of things that screw up arrow-based history in the
> shell, they might affect screen as well

arrow-based history scrolling always works fine for me in the shell.
Also when I use (even on another platform)
screen -c /dev/null
I have the same issue?

Still stuck.

E.