When you get used to pressing the up arrow for history items, the tab auto-complete feature and other handy features in the Linux terminal, it can be irritating when the occasional program behaves differently.
I have been using SICStus Prolog for my CS Prolog course and have been irritated by SICStus picking up the up arrow key as ^[[A and not retrieving the last thing I typed.
To get it to work like the Bash shell and other programs do, you can use rlwrap [program].
This program allows you to ‘wrap’ a program you’re running, like SICStus, in the readline attribute. This contains the features you’re used to. Just type something like this at the terminal, e.g.
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rlwrap sicstus |
It will ‘wrap’ your program in the readline function and work as expected. Voila!
If you want more information on rlwrap, check out the man (manual) page.
3 Responses to “Enabling command history in terminal programs like Sicstus”
Great tip! I’ve never heard of rlwrap and although I wouldn’t need it often, it supplements Sicstus perfectly. Thank you.
I was having almost exactly the same problem, but with ECLiPSe CLP (Prolog). Thank you very much!
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