Question

I am using putty to connect to the a server.

Whenever i press tab.. for file name completion… it puts some weird character..

the ups and downs arrow doesnt work.. and ulimately i end up typing everything.. (the file names..)

for example

 directory has file.. foo.py foo.txt

  $python foo.py fo[tab].... i am hoping to see the selections.. (foo.py, foo.txt) and stuff

and it shows that…but it also adds a char to the end..and if i try to erase it.. it puts more characters in the end.. 🙁

Any suggestions on what might be the issue?

Thanks

Answer 1

Autocomplete and history depends on what environment the server is running. So I’m afraid there’s nothing to enable from the client-side. If you can find out what environment the server is running and you have write-access, then maybe you could find some environment-specific edits to be made (to config files and such).