| Re: up/down arrows not working in IDLDE [message #32525] |
Thu, 17 October 2002 00:54  |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Bruce Bowler wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 03:04:47 -0400, Reimar Bauer put fingers to keyboard
> and said:
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>> Bruce Bowler wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:20:21 -0400, Reimar Bauer put fingers to
>>> keyboard and said:
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>>>> Bruce Bowler wrote:
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>>>> >On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:30:25 -0400, Bruce Bowler put fingers to
>>>> >keyboard and said:
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>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >>Oddball problem...
>>>> >>
>>>> >>I'm running IDL 5.5a on a redhat 7.2 system.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>In IDLDE, the up and down arrow keys don't move the cursor up and
>>>> >>down in the "view" window. The left and right arrows work fine in
>>>> >>the view window. The up and down arrows seem to work fine in all the
>>>> >>other applications that I've tried.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Any ideas?
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >I hate following up to my own posts, but not as much as I hate leaving
>>>> >out details... The up/down arrows *WORK* in the "command" window.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Please switch your terminal into "linux console" then it works.
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>>> Huh??? I don't understand what you mean...
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>> Did you know this article:
>> http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/commandedit.html
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> No, I didn't, but I do now. Perhaps I'm being exceedingly dense, but
> what is the "console window"? When I right click on the window where I
> have this problem (remember, it's ONLY the up/down arrows that don't work
> and ONLY in the "view" window, in the "command" window they work fine),
> there isn't an option that says anything about "linux console" or
> anything even similar.
>
> Bruce
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Dear Bruce,
what kind of desktop are you using is it kde or what is it?
Where did you type ls to list a directory? Normally this is a console.
Hope this helps a bit
regards
Reimar
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-I)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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