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

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 26 Sep 2009, 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.

Are you perhaps running a different shell (or your usual shell, which
I guess is bash or zsh, with a radically different configuration) on
the remote machine?

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