[Rd] History via arrow keys broken (PR#999)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

That would mean that the readline libs were not detected during the build phase.
I'd ask for a new build.

As a remedy, try running R within Emacs using the (outstanding) ESS mode.

> Full_Name: Bill Kristan
> Version: 1.3.0
> OS: Linux Mandrake 8.0
> Submission from: (NULL) (138.23.159.84)
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> I just downloaded the "unofficial" Mandrake 8.0 rpm from cran. So far the only
> problem I've encountered is that my arrow keys no longer scroll through my
> command history, but give ^[OA and ^[OB instead. Left and right arrow navigation
> within a line is also broken. I checked previous reports, and when this was
> reported in very early versions of R the suggested fix was to upgrade readline.
> I upgraded to the newest available Mandrake rpm, which was readline-4.2-2, but
> the behavior was the same. I was using the KDE terminal emulator, and tried
> different keyboard layouts, but that didn't help either.
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