[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34920] Unable to access command history

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34920>

                 Summary: Unable to access command history
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon 28 Nov 2011 04:35:07 AM UTC
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Performance
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Joanna Cheng
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.2.4
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

Occasionally (unable to pinpoint exact circumstances), I stop being able to
access my command history. 

Neither the arrow keys nor readline commands work. Readline commands just give
^A, ^E, ^P, ^N etc input on screen. Arrow keys give no output.

e.g.

octave-3.2.4.exe:39> ^P^N^A^E
error: invalid character `►' (ASCII 16) near line 39, column 2
parse error:

>>> ►♫☺♣

^G then <enter> in this situation gives me a system bel as expected; this does
NOT work when on a working (i.e. arrow keys/readline commands working)
window.

This only seems to happen on one install, on XP SP3. I have a similar install
(same version of Octave) on a Vista and a Win7 install. Don't have another XP
install to test on.

Octave was installed using the binary installer here:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/mlclass-resources/software/Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe




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