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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:06:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506B9D98.6040808@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506B5CA0.7050306@tlinx.org>

On 10/2/12 4:29 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
> 
> Dave Chinner wrote:
>> $ sudo xfs_db -r /dev/vdb
>> xfs_db> inode 128
>> (reverse-i-search)`in': inode 128
> ----
> Um...When I press up-arrow, I get nothing.
> 
> When I press down arrow -- also nothing.
> 
> Try hitting home for beginning of line --
> nothing.   Tried ESC to re-edit line -- nothing. (enters ^[).
> 
> What are you typing to get the above?  does it require a config somewhere?

Do you build your own pkgs or use a distro?  IF distro, I'd file a bug.

Agreed that defaulting to on would be nice, but in Fedora & RHEL:

%configure \
        --enable-readline=yes	\
...

just FWIW.

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02 16:44 Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled? Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 18:41 ` Kinzel, David
2012-10-02 20:17 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 21:29   ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-03  2:06     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-10-03  2:16       ` Nathan Scott
2012-10-03  3:51         ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-03  3:58           ` Nathan Scott
2012-10-03  4:21             ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-04 12:12             ` David Disseldorp
2012-10-02 21:30   ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 21:34   ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 21:52     ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 22:52       ` Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled? (+attachment) Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 23:14         ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 23:34           ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 23:50             ` Dave Chinner

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