Key buffer in Wish

[sedawk]

Hi,

My wish on a Linux machine doesn't have key buffer (or key history). When I use up-arrow and down-arrow keys, it gives garbage, like this:

% ^[[A
% ^[[B

Right- and left-arrow keys provide junk too. How do I configure Wish to use up-arrow and down-arrow? It is very painful to use Wish without it.

Thanks.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Those functionalities are provided by the readline library. To make [tt]tclsh[/tt] or [tt]wish[/tt] to use it, their source code has to be modified accordingly then recompiled. (*) Personally I prefer to stick with the current pain.

(*) As far as I know. Never researched on this particular case.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[sedawk]

Thanks, that is a lead. I am new to Tcl.

By the way, how do I check the version number? I found my tclsh doesn't support "dict" keyword.

 

[feherke]

Hi

By the way, how do I check the version number?

See the [tt]tcl_version[/tt] variable.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/