Re: [Bug-gnubg] Bug (?): history in SuSE-9.0

[Jim Segrave]

On Sun 02 Nov 2003 (15:06 +0100), Achim Mueller wrote:
> * Jim Segrave wrote on 02 Nov 2003:
> 
> > On Sat 01 Nov 2003 (17:56 +0100), Achim Mueller wrote:
> > > In the non-gui version the history (with) cursor) doesn't work
> > > anymore. This only happens on SuSE-9.0
> > 
> > For me, the arrow keys work for command history and, since I use emacs
> > settings in ~/.inputrc, 
> > 
> > Ctl P or Up Arrow is previous history line
> > Ctl N or Down Arrow is next history line
> > Ctl R does a reverse incremental search in the history
> > Ctl S does a forward incremental search in the history
> 
> Same result. emacs keys and arrow keys do work on command line but
> not in gnubg. I checked the keys in similar interfaces, which use
> readline, here in "grub" (bootmanager interface) and "apt-shell" (an
> installation interface for packages). There everything is ok.

Do you have a ~/.inputrc file?

Try something like
strace -o /tmp/trace.out gnubg -t

grep for libreadline in trace.out - is it being opened?
grep for inputrc in trace.out - does gnubg look for it? Does it
succeed in opening it?

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