FTP client and history

[Jason Clinton]

On Friday 1 July 2005 10:42, brad wrote:
> I have a strange problem.  From my desktop (FC3/KDE) I can ftp from
> Konsole to my FC3 servers and the up arrow shows my command history and
> the backspace key moves you back a space like expected.  However, when I
> ftp from my linux servers to another ftp server, the up arrow gives me
> '^[[A'.  In addition, a coworker with a Windows desktop sees the same
> behavior but also loses his backspace ability when ftp'ing from the
> linux servers.  My backspace works fine.  He is always connecting to the
> servers through secureCRT.  Can anyone offer any insight as to why this
> happens and how to correct it?  Not having history in ftp is annoying.

The problem is related to the 'readline' library and its initialization file 
stored in /etc/inputrc on your FC3 server. In most distributions there are 
some comments in that file that explain how to change things. Many console 
applications make use of readline most notably /bin/bash. Here is 
my /etc/inputrc
  ------------------------>8----------------------------------------------
# /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline
# See readline(3readline) and `info rluserman' for more information.

# Be 8 bit clean.
set input-meta on
set output-meta on

# To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
# the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
# which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.

# set convert-meta off

# try to enable the application keypad when it is called.  Some systems
# need this to enable the arrow keys.
# set enable-keypad on

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows for other codes of arrow keys

# do not bell on tab-completion 
# set bell-style none 

# some defaults / modifications for the emacs mode
$if mode=emacs

# allow the use of the Home/End keys
# "\e[1~": beginning-of-line
# "\e[4~": end-of-line

# allow the use of the Delete/Insert keys
# "\e[3~": delete-char
# "\e[2~": quoted-insert

# mappings for "page up" and "page down" to step to the beginning/end 
# of the history
# "\e[5~": beginning-of-history
# "\e[6~": end-of-history

# alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

# # mappings for Ctrl-left-arrow and Ctrl-right-arrow for word moving
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
"\e\e[D": backward-word

# $if term=rxvt
# "\e[8~": end-of-line
# $endif

# for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/DEbian xterm
"\eOH": beginning-of-line
"\eOF": end-of-line

# for freebsd console
# "\e[H": beginning-of-line
# "\e[F": end-of-line

$endif


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