#305501 gnuplot: home/end keys don't work

Package:
gnuplot-nox
Source:
gnuplot
Description:
Command-line driven interactive plotting program. No-X package
Submitter:
Date:
2010-09-30 14:27:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#305501#5
Date:
2005-04-20 11:26:06 UTC
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Gnuplot can't handle cursor keys correctly: When I start gnuplot, type
"word " and press "Home" "End" "Delete", I get this line in gnuplot:

gnuplot> word 7~8~3~

I would expect that the cursor moves to line start, line end and delete a
character.
It seems that this version of gnuplot is not linked against gnus
libreadline. I suggest linking against gnu libreadline, because all the
cursor handling is much better and even file completition is working! This
can be done via

./configure --with-readline=gnu

I would be very happy if this could be fixed soon, because we use gnuplot
very often here.

Thanks,
Markus Grunwald
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#305501#10
Date:
2006-09-11 19:40:06 UTC
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forwarded 305501 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1556607&group_id=2055&atid=102055

Due to licence incompatibility I sent a bug about built-in readline function to upstream.
Adrress is upper.

Chali Ahmul M.P.U
#305501#15
Date:
2010-09-30 14:25:26 UTC
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Unfortunately, because of license incompatibilities (See
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot/README.Debian for details) Debian cannot distribute
gnuplot linked to GNU readline.

gnuplot is now linked to bsd readline (libedit), so at least Home and End
should work. I only have problems with Delete-Forward, which still seems
unsupported.