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   Wez Furlong :terminal: (wez@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 01:07:37 JST Wez Furlong :terminal:

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   • Julia Evans

   @b0rk FWIW, the cause of this is usually due to the program using a simple line reading routing (eg: `fgets`), or using a GNU-readline-compatible library like libedit that isn't correctly setup (the pgsql repl used to behave like this in the past, unsure if this is fixed by default now), or because there is some mishap with TERMINFO/TERMCAP that is breaking the line reading library.

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 01:07:38 JST Julia Evans

     is there a command line program that you use frequently where the arrow keys don't work **when entering text**? (not vi)

     I'm trying to think of an example of a relatively popular program which doesn't support arrow keys and I'm struggling to come up with one