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Hi all.
Debian Distribution: Squeeze
Putty: 0.62
Configuration:
Problem: When arrow keys or tab pressed, the following character strings disply on screen instead of the cursor moving left or right, or up or down.
NB: This only happens when I am not logged in as root. When I do this, everything acts as expected.
Expectation:
Up: previous in command history
Down: next in command history
Left: move cursor left
Right: move curos right
Tab: tab completion
What happens:
Up: ^[[A
Down: ^[[B
Left: ^[[D
Right: ^[[C
Tab: <tab>
Steps Taken, knowledge gained:
Found this:
http://www.softpanorama.org/Scriptin.../inputrc.shtml
Tried: Adding following line to /etc/inputrc and ./usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows and restarting:
Code:
"^[[C" backward-char
Tried: search -name inputrc* which yielded following files:
./etc/inputrc
./usr/share/doc/libreadline6/inputrc.arrows
./usr/share/doc/libereadline5/inputrc.arrows
./usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows
./usr/share/doc/readline-common/inputrc.arrows
./usr/share/readline/inputrc
./etc/inputrc
Code:
# /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline
2 # See readline(3readline) and `info rluserman' for more information.
3
4 # Be 8 bit clean.
5 set input-meta on
6 set output-meta on
7
8 # To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
9 # the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
10 # which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.
11
12 # set convert-meta off
13
14 # try to enable the application keypad when it is called. Some systems
15 # need this to enable the arrow keys.
16 # set enable-keypad on
17
18 # see /usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows for other codes of arrow keys
19
20 # do not bell on tab-completion
21 # set bell-style none
22 # set bell-style visible
23
24 # some defaults / modifications for the emacs mode
25 $if mode=emacs
26
27 # allow the use of the Home/End keys
28 "\e[1~": beginning-of-line
29 "\e[4~": end-of-line
30
31 # allow the use of the Delete/Insert keys
32 "\e[3~": delete-char
33 "\e[2~": quoted-insert
34
35 # mappings for "page up" and "page down" to step to the beginning/end
36 # of the history
37 # "\e[5~": beginning-of-history
38 # "\e[6~": end-of-history
39
40 # alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history
41 # "\e[5~": history-search-backward
42 # "\e[6~": history-search-forward
43
44 # mappings for Ctrl-left-arrow and Ctrl-right-arrow for word moving
45 "\e[1;5C": forward-word
46 "\e[1;5D": backward-word
47 "\e[5C": forward-word
48 "\e[5D": backward-word
49 "\e\e[C": forward-word
50 "\e\e[D": backward-word
51
52 $if term=rxvt
53 "\e[8~": end-of-line
54 "\eOc": forward-word
55 "\eOd": backward-word
56 $endif
57
58 # for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/Debian xterm
59 # "\eOH": beginning-of-line
60 # "\eOF": end-of-line
61
62 # for freebsd console
63 # "\e[H": beginning-of-line
64 # "\e[F": end-of-line
65
66 $endif
./usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows
Code:
1 # This file controls the behaviour of line input editing for
2 # programs that use the Gnu Readline library.
3 #
4 # Arrow keys in keypad mode
5 #
6 "\C-[OD" backward-char
7 "\C-[OC" forward-char
8 "\C-[OA" previous-history
9 "\C-[OB" next-history
10 #
11 # Arrow keys in ANSI mode
12 #
13 "\C-[[D" backward-char
14 "\C-[[C" forward-char
15 "\C-[[A" previous-history
16 "\C-[[B" next-history
17 #
18 # Arrow keys in 8 bit keypad mode
19 #
20 "\C-M-OD" backward-char
21 "\C-M-OC" forward-char
22 "\C-M-OA" previous-history
23 "\C-M-OB" next-history
24 #
25 # Arrow keys in 8 bit ANSI mode
26 #
27 "\C-M-[D" backward-char
28 "\C-M-[C" forward-char
29 "\C-M-[A" previous-history
30 "\C-M-[B" next-history
31
32 "\C-^[[D" backward-char
I
diff'ed all the inputrc and inputrc.arrows - they're all identical to
./etc/inputrc and
./usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows So it's not a case of editting the wrong file.
I'm out of ideas on how to proceed from here. I would really appreciate any help anyone can offer.
Thanks.