[scilab-Users] Using End, Home, Del and Ctrl arrow in scilab console from putty

[Antoine Monmayrant]

On 07/06/2012 11:13, Adrien Vogt-Schilb wrote:
> Hi
>
> In short, when i use Scilab through putty, the console does not 
> reccognize keystrokes like [End] [Home] or [Del]. Those produce thinfs 
> like [1~  [4~  or  [3~
> Anyway i can configure my Scilab to solve this?
>
>
> For the details:
>
> I have a Linux server with Scilab 5.3.3 installed on it.
> I connect to this server with Putty from my personal win XP machine.
>
> When using the regular console, I can use things like [End] to go to 
> the end of the current line, or even [Alt]+[Backspace] to delete an 
> entire word.
> I had to configure putty specifically for this.
>
> On the Linux server, I have to start Scilab -nwni because I cannot use 
> X in my win XP machine. (i do not believe that this matters at all)
>
> I don't know if the problem should be solved by configuring my local 
> keyboard, putty, the Linux server, or Scilab in the linux server
>
> Best regards

Hi Adrien,

That might not be an option for you, but did you try to use cygwin and 
its console instead of Putty?
I used it several times to acces scilab on linux from Windows an it 
worked fine.

Hope it helps,

Antoine