command + arrow keys not working in certain terminal applications

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  1. salilsurendran, Jul 1, 2015

    salilsurendran macrumors newbie

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    Had a fairly simple question with regards to terminal in mac which I am not able to find a solution on the web. On my mac terminal I can do cmd+arrow keys to move forward/backward between words on the command line. But when I start a particular program like influx cli which is a program to interface with influxdb these keys stop working and when I press cmd+back it prints b instead of going back a word. Anyone know how to fix this?
     
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  2. mfram, Jul 1, 2015

    mfram macrumors 65816

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    There may not be a solution. I'm guessing that the key command you are using works when the application is using the 'readline' library. Like the bash shell, for example. That library is used by some programs to implement fancy editing and history on the command line. But if the program doesn't use that library then you will have to use the functionality the program implements.
     
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