Re: [ROOT] keyboard problems

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 12:01:42 MET


Hi Jens,

  this happens sometime when you've used the same shell to login in to
some other machine (like HP-UX, at least that is how I get the same
problem). Something (like the HP-UX sh) remaps the arrow keys and they
stop working in ROOT. You always can use ctrl-p and ctrl-n to get the
previous and next commands.

Cheers, Fons.



Jens Ivar Jordre wrote:
> 
> Hello rooters of the world.
> 
>         I have a problem when running ROOT which may not be connected to
> ROOT itself. It may be outside the scope of this list, but some of you may
> have faced the same problem and I therefore post this message.
>         I'm currently running ROOT 2.25/03 with RH 6.1 (Intel PC).
> The problem I face from time to time is that the arrow keys stop working
> the way they should. I.e. I am not able to get back to the previous
> commands at the ROOT prompt using the arrow keys. The outputs I get when
> pressing the arrow keys are simply the following capital letters:
> up-arrow: A
> down-arrow: B
> right-arrow: C
> left-arrow: D
> 
> When I exit my ROOT session and go back to the shell prompt the up and
> down arrow keys work as they should. Also, when I inspect my .root_hist,
> the commands from my ROOT session are there. So the commands are
> "recorded" but cannot be recalled in the interactive session.
> 
> Does this seem familiar to anybody? Is this a configuration problem?
> 
> Regards
> Jens Ivar
> 
> ---
> Jens Ivar Jřrdre, Dep. of Phys., Allégt. 55, N-5007 BERGEN, NORWAY
> e-mail: JensIvar.Jordre@fi.uib.no, phone (temp.): (+47) 55 58 27 92

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