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Martin Mucha
Martin Mucha

Reputation: 3091

kdb q shell on linux does not support moving the cursor?

In q when I try to recall previous command or move cursor, I'm getting printed codes:

^[[D^[[C^[[A^[[B

IIUC these are the representation of left, right, up, down arrows, which are interpretted by shell to do cursor movement, but not in q. Is there a way how to have this "functionality" in q for linux? What am I doing wrong? As it's not always easy to type without any error from left to rigth, when language itself is evaluated from right to left. Actually it's almost never easy...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 296

Answers (1)

Matt Moore
Matt Moore

Reputation: 2800

You need rlwrap. Set an alias for q. alias 'q=rlwrap q'

Edit: realised I messed up the alias syntax

Upvotes: 7

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