Re: Backspace, delete and arrow keys not working in Guile

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Real Carbonneau wrote:
 
> Everything works great, except that at the guile command line, when I press
> keys such as backspace, delete and the arrow keys I get the following
> strings displayed ("^H", "[[3~",etc..),  instead of the desired action.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there anyway to resolve this?  I have searched the mailing list archive
> and the web without any result.

Add this to your ~/.guile:
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(use-modules (ice-9 readline))
(activate-readline)
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Should do the trick.

--Dirk-Jan.