On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System <
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> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the xterm package:
>
> #596809: xterm: command with error, cannot be repeated with up arrow
>
> It has been closed by Julien Cristau .
>
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> From: Julien Cristau
> To: Timo Juhani Lindfors ,
> 596809-d...@bugs.debian.org
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:45:42 +0200
> Subject: Re: Bug#596809: xterm: command with error, cannot be repeated with
> up arrow
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 13:05:50 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
>
> > yellowprotoss writes:
> > > I do this
> > > # exec irpsion5 -s reboots.log
> > > No IRDA device found
> >
> > "exec" replaces the current shell with the new command. Its history is
> > lost. If you don't use "exec" you should be able to still access its
> > history.
> >
> So, yeah, sounds like the expected behaviour, closing.
>
well, If I type this command :
dialog --title "Choose file" --inputbox "Please input file name:" 8 40
$F 2>/tmp/ans
After it ran, there is no way to edit it again after "up" arrow pressing.
I consider it not normal, but -well, you are the chief :) You decide how you
wish it works. xterm is very useful and the greatest tool ever for X11.
All the best;
Kind regards
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
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> From: yellowprotoss
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:50:15 +0200
> Subject: xterm: command with error, cannot be repeated with up arrow
> Package: xterm
> Version: 261-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> I do this
> # exec irpsion5 -s reboots.log
> No IRDA device found
>
> it gives an error.
>
> I wanna repeat it, so I press "Up" on keyboard to get this failed command
> again into prompt, and It is the previous one, not the :
> exec irpsion5 -s reboots.log
>
> it is reproducible with all failed comamnds. and this was a given example.
>
> In stable, it works nicely those failed command and pressing up arrow on
> keyboard can show the bash history failed or not :(
>
>
>
> best regards
>
>
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages xterm depends on:
> ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared
> lib
> ii libfontconfig12.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration
> library
> ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange
> library
> ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal
> hand
> ii libutempter0 1.1.5-3A privileged helper for
> utmp/wtmp
> ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
> ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
> ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing
> librar
> ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility
> library
> ii libxt61:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
> ii xbitmaps 1.1.0-1Base X bitmaps
>
> Versions of packages xterm recommends:
> ii x11-utils 7.5+4 X11 utilities
>
> Versions of packages xterm suggests:
> pn xfonts-cyrillic(no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>
