back space key and arrows keys

Started by Elielson Fontaneziover 23 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Elielson Fontanezi
ElielsonF@prodam.sp.gov.br

Hello!

How can I configure the back space key and arrows keys to
work well inside psql, avoiding thinks like that:

zakal$ psql
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

zakal=# select 1 + 3; ^H^[[D^[[A^[[C

See the funny thimbols?
Is there any postgres file to configure that?

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#2Stephan Szabo
sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com
In reply to: Elielson Fontanezi (#1)
Re: back space key and arrows keys

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Elielson Fontanezi wrote:

Hello!

How can I configure the back space key and arrows keys to
work well inside psql, avoiding thinks like that:

zakal$ psql
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

zakal=# select 1 + 3; ^H^[[D^[[A^[[C

See the funny thimbols?
Is there any postgres file to configure that?

You need to have readline and probably the readline development
headers (if you're planning to recompile), re-run configure
and see what it says about readline (if it doesn't find it, you
will probably need to explicitly give it the include and library
paths) and then rebuild.