getting up arrow in terminal to scroll thought history of python commands

[Vincent Davis]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
> sounds like your keymapping got messed with.
>
> you could just:
> set -o vi
> python
> ESC, Ctrl-j
> and now ESC-k and ESC-j will take you back and forth in history (std vi
> editing)

This is done within python? Let make sure I am clear. This is only an
issue within the interactive python for the python dist I have built
from source not other pythons or terminal in general. I look into the
commands you suggested more but ESC-k and ESC-j don't sound very
appealing to me.

Thanks
Vincent
>
> -Gerry
>
>
>
> Jun 13, 2010 07:22:40 PM, vincent at vincentdavis.net wrote:
>
> I just installed 2.6 and 3.1 from current maintenance source on Mac
> OSx. When I am running as an interactive terminal session the up arrow
> does not scroll thought the history of the py commands I have entered
> I just get ^[[A. When I install from a compiled source it works fine.
> Whats the fix for this?
>
> Thanks
> Vincent
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