Easy arrow key usage for original terminal frontend
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- From: "A. Lapraitis" <ffcitatos at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 03:17:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Approved: Steven M. Christensen <steve@smc.vnet.net>, Moderator
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Hello,
In case I am not the only person having trouble with Mathematica terminal
frontend ('math'), I post the solution.
The exact problem is that the arrow keys do not work correctly on bash (or
screen). For example, pressing left arrow gives ^[[D. There seems to be a
long solution, involving a python program on a blog (
http://marrabbio.com/?p=2261 ), and there also is a readline based
frontend, called JMath ( http://robotics.caltech.edu/~radford/jmath/ ).
However, I found these solutions impossible to implement in my situation
(no root privileges on the Mathematica server).
An easy workaround is to use rlwrap (
http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/). One has to download the
source, and compile it
$ ./configure; make
After this, src/rlwrap is the executable to use:
$ ./src/rlwrap math
Hope this saves somebody some time!
ff