[GAP Forum] netBSD and GAP

[Stefan Kohl]

Dear Forum,

On September 26, Ayan Mahalanobis wrote:

>>>the arrow keys don't work. If you press the uparrow you get something 
>>>funny but not the previous command or if you press the left arrow the 
>>>cursor doesn't go back one step.
>>
>>you should still be able to use so-called Emacs bindings for the line 
> 
> editing, i.e.
> 
>>Contol-p for the previous line, 
>>Contol-n for the next line, 
>>Contol-f for the next character in line, 
>>Contol-b for the previous character in line, 
>>Contol-d for the character removal, 
>>etc
 >
 > No, unfortunately none of the commands, control-P etc works.

As apparently nobody can provide better advice:

Maybe it is worth to try using the option -f (force line editing)
to tell GAP that it is indeed not in batch mode.

Hope this helps,

     Stefan Kohl

By the way: Questions of purely technical nature like this one should
better be sent to support at gap-system.org -- this will often also yield
a quicker answer, as sending a question to the Forum can be seen as a
request for something like a public, official answer, which often has
to be discussed for some time.