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.