From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: "erskine, michael" , "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: AW: bash history not avail from arrow keys Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:34:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990722104828.24835.rocketmail@web116.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-07n/msg00398.html Message-ID: <19990731183400.-MJaNn7wrWR72DAt4mYMtg4xzVhGSJ_rr7SIXtRi3d0@z> 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@sourceware.cygnus.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@sourceware.cygnus.com