up and down arrow key in GrADS

[Yan Huang]

Diane,

Thanks.
Here is the result from 'q config', and the grads prompt is 'ga>', not
'ga->'. How to enable the readline?

Yan

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ga> q config
Config: v1.9b4 32-bit little-endian lats

Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.9b4
Copyright (c) 1988-2005 by Brian Doty and IGES
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
See file COPYRIGHT for more information.

Built Tue Feb 27 12:50:33 EST 2007 for ia64-unknown-linux-gnu

This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:

    o This is a 32-bit LITTLE ENDIAN machine version.
    o Command line editing (readline) DISABLED.
    o CIRES/CDC (http://www.cdc.noaa.gov) SDF/XDF interface DISABLED.
      This version is NOT configured to read NetCDF/HDF-SDS files.
    o DTYPE netcdf and DTYPE hdfsds are DISABLED.
    o OPeNDAP (a.k.a. DODS) gridded data interface DISABLED.
    o OPeNDAP (a.k.a. DODS) station data interface DISABLED.
    o PCMDI (http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov) LATS interface ENABLED.
      This version is configured to write GRIB files (but no NetCDF/HDF files).
    o DAO (http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov) Athena Widget GUI DISABLED.
    o NRL/DAO/PCMDI XA or ImageMagick Image Output DISABLED.
    o printim command DISABLED


For additional information please consult http://grads.iges.org/grads/
At 06:26 PM 3/21/2007, you wrote:
>Yan,
>
>A first step would be to ensure that readline is enabled.  What is the
>result of "q config"?  Include the grads prompt when you send it.  (It
>should be "ga->", not "ga>").
>
>   Diane
>
>Yan Huang wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I encounter a problem in GrADs when switching from Unix to Linux.
>>After entering into GrADs window with gradsc command, I cannot move up and
>>down arrow key to repeat/search commands I used before, which is very
>>inconvenient.
>>The left and right arrow keys, and backspace key don't work either. I can
>>only use 'delete' key to modify the commands.
>>
>>Anyone has any ideas for this?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Yan
>
>--
>Diane Stokes
>Environmental Modeling Center
>National Weather Service/NOAA