navigating keys are shown as control characters when in better-exceptions python3 REPL on ubuntu
sonack opened this issue · 3 comments
OS: ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Interpreter: Python 3.6.2 :: Anaconda, Inc.
terminal: gnome 3.18.3 (I think it will helps)
Symptom: Just like the vim-minimal when I just installed my os, the up, down , left and right arrow navigating keys are not work as I expected, they will only print ^[[A .... ^[[D on the REPL.
Does the same happen with the regular REPL?
Further, do you have a .pythonrc script set up?
@Qix- This doesn't happened to the regular REPL, I don't find anything like a .pythonrc script.
Sorry for the delay in response. I don't assume you're still playing around with this almost a year later, but the problem here is that readline isn't being intialized in your REPL. Setting up a proper .pythonrc is important for this (search in-page for readline and copy all relevant parts).
I'm not sure how much we can do to support out of the box. Let me know if that doesn't solve the problem and I can investigate further.