[erlang-questions] Arrow keys in erl started by cygwin mintty terminal

[Nikolaos Bezirgiannis]

Serge Aleynikov <serge@REDACTED> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to configure a cygwin terminal running erl
> on Windows so that it would recognize the up/down arrow keys?  While the
> up/down keys work fine in werl and in erl that was started from Windows
> command prompt, I have a trouble with them working in erl started by
> cygwin's mintty - the cursor moves up/down screen beyond the current
> line of the shell, and my attempts to address the issue by editing
> ~/.inputrc haven't succeeded.
>
> Serge

Suggestion:

Install the utility rlwrap from the Cygwin repository,
and after that run from the console: rlwrap erl

Regards,
Nikolaos