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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers bash history and command line wrapping Post 302331021 by otheus on Friday 3rd of July 2009 05:57:08 AM
Old 07-03-2009
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".
 

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ansi_cmacros

term::ansi::code::macros(n)					 Terminal control				       term::ansi::code::macros(n)

_________________________________________________________________

NAME

       term::ansi::code::macros - Macro sequences

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require textutil::repeat

       package require textutil::tabify

       package require term::ansi::code::macros  ?0.1?

       ::term::ansi::code::macros::names

       ::term::ansi::code::macros::import ?ns? ?arg...?

       ::term::ansi::code::macros::menu menu

       ::term::ansi::code::macros::frame string

_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       This package provides higher level control sequences for more complex shapes.

API

   INTROSPECTION
       ::term::ansi::code::macros::names
	      This command is for introspection. It returns as its result a list containing the names of all attribute commands.

       ::term::ansi::code::macros::import ?ns? ?arg...?
	      This  command  imports some or all attribute commands into the namespace ns. This is by default the namespace macros. Note that this
	      is relative namespace name, placing the imported command into a child  of  the  current  namespace.  By  default	all  commands  are
	      imported, this can howver be restricted by listing the names of the wanted commands after the namespace argument.

   SEQUENCES
       ::term::ansi::code::macros::menu menu
	      The  description	of  a  menu  is converted into a formatted rectangular block of text, with the menu command characters highlighted
	      using bold red text.  The result is returned as the result of the command.

	      The description, menu, is a dictionary mapping from menu label to command character.

       ::term::ansi::code::macros::frame string
	      The paragraph of text contained in the string is padded with spaces at the right margin, after normalizing internal tabs,  and  then
	      put into a frame made of box-graphics. The result is returned as the result of the command.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This  document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.	Please report such in the category term of
       the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you  may  have  for
       either package and/or documentation.

KEYWORDS

       ansi, control, frame, menu, terminal

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

term									0.1					       term::ansi::code::macros(n)
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