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Old 07-03-2009
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There is probably a term mismatch. Try telling putty to use vt220. And in the settings window, there is a section for "keyboard". You might want to experiment with different keyboard emulations. Usually the "Esc" is preferred.

To match this on the unix side, throw this into the .profile/.bashrc:

Code:
export TERM=vt220

You can also try xterm-color or xterm-ansi or just ansi.

There are several ways to tell bash to use the "vi" command-editing mode, but if you are only familiar with up/down arrow keys, then you might want to use "set -o emacs". Additionally, there's a file called ".inputrc" which is read normally by bash and will configure the keyboard how you like. Look at the manpage for "readline".