R help - Jul 2001 - problem with "history"

Dear all

After upgrading my OS to SuSE Linux 7.1 (intel) and re-compiling R
1.3.0, I noticed that the arrow keys are not working anymore. Not even
emacs-type commands (such as Ctrl-a or Ctrl-e) work anymore. However
"readline" and the arrow keys seem to be working well outside R. Can
anyone tell me what may be wrong?

Alberto

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>>>>> "Alberto" == Alberto Murta <amurta at
ipimar.pt> writes:
    Alberto> After upgrading my OS to SuSE Linux 7.1 (intel) and
    Alberto> re-compiling R 1.3.0, I noticed that the arrow keys are not
    Alberto> working anymore. Not even emacs-type commands (such as Ctrl-a
    Alberto> or Ctrl-e) work anymore. However "readline" and the
arrow keys
    Alberto> seem to be working well outside R. Can anyone tell me what may
    Alberto> be wrong?

Instead of "re-compiling" you must "re-configure from
scratch" after an OS
upgrade.
I.e.,
	rm config.cache
	{path/}configure
	make
etc

An even more foolproof (but considerably slower) version of the above would
be to throw away your 1.3.0 installation, and re configure from scratch.
This means that if your build directory is = source, you trash everything,
unpack the tar file again, etc.

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum  LEO D10	Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology)	8092 Zurich	SWITZERLAND
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