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

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

Peter Corlett wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>   
Sure, thanks for helping!

Local...

r0g at steppa:~$ echo $TERM
xterm
r0g at steppa:~$ tty
/dev/pts/1
r0g at steppa:~$ stty
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?; swtch = M-^?;
ixany iutf8


Remote...

$ echo $TERM
xterm
$ tty
/dev/pts/0
$ stty
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?;
-brkint ixany

Any useful clues in that?

When I type into the remote terminal the...

right cursor prints "^[[C",
the left prints "^[[D",
Tab actually tabs along ~ 8 chars,
Ctrl+R prints "^R".

The remote points are a stripped down custom Ubuntu Jaunty live CDs from
which I've removed all the X and Gnome packages. Might I have
accidentally removed something which has messed this up? If so what
packages might I need to reinstall?

Thanks for getting back to me :)

Roger.



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