[Gllug] Tab-complete and cursor keys in SSH sessions?

[Peter Corlett]

On 26 Sep 2009, at 00:38, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
[...]
> When I SSH into another machine I've noticed the cursor keys don't act
> as they do in my normal terminal (gnome-terminal) and hitting tab  
> seems
> to just print a control/escape character rather than completing the
> line. I assume other cool stuff such as Ctrl+r will also not work.

How curious. From that description, I'd suspect a mad terminal  
emulator, or broken pty support on the remote system.

Can you show us the output of "echo $TERM", "tty" and "stty" on both  
the local and remote systems?


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