Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304101645090.11717-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-04-10T15:47:35Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: R under Sun Solaris 8
In-Reply-To: <3E958E04.EBB07467@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de>
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Klaus-Peter Pleissner wrote:
> I have installed R1.6.2 on a Sun Sparc workstatioin 60 under Solaris 8.
> I' m using csh, tcsh or bash- shell.
> Unfortunately, it is impossible to use the "arrow-up" key on Sun's
> German keyboard to repeat a R command by using this key.
>
> Always following syntax error occurs:
> ^[[A
>
> Does anybody have a hint ?
Do you have libreadline installed?
Was it found when you configured R?
I can't speak for your keyboard, but ESC[A is the `raw' sequence generated
by the up-arrow key on an English Sun keyboard, and what you show is what
happens if readline is not compiled into R.
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