I ended up following your suggestions, downloading the readline and libreadline-dev libraries, and compiling Sage from source. So far all seems good!
Thanks, Alasdair On Nov 19, 3:20 pm, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 18, 7:31 pm, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Alasdair, > > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Alasdair <amc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm using, as far as I know, the newest sage on the newest Ubuntu. > > > However, tab completion of a command moves the cursor back towards the > > > beginning of the line (in fact,over the "a" of the "Sage: " prompt). > > > I can keep typing, and the command will be recognized, even though it > > > appears to be overwriting itself. > > > > How can I fix this little problem? > > > I'm also on an Ubuntu 9.10 machine. Prior to compiling Sage, I > > installed readline, its development headers, and other necessary > > software as detailed on the source download page [1]. I then proceed > > to compile Sage 4.2. After Sage finished compiling, I load Sage, type > > in Matrix and hit tab. I didn't experience the problem you described. > > I have a feeling it's to do with the readline library, but I may be > > wrong. I have experienced a similar problem on a SPARC machine running > > Solaris. Another thing to try is delete your ~/.sage directory and > > then load Sage again. > > > [1]http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html > > > -- > > Regards > > Minh Van Nguyen > > I had what sounds like a similar problem, and it was discussed in this > thread: > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_frm/thread/dda4b0d... > > In particular, Minh's suggestion of installing libreadline5-dev fixed > it for me. > > John -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
