Description of problem: Can't use arrows and readline features in maxima. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): maxima-5.15.0-1.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to use arrow keys, ^A, ^E, Home, End, etc in maxima Actual results: Get lots of ^[[A^[[A control sequences showing up in the terminal. Expected results: Moves cursor left or right, to the start or end of the line, moves through previously entered lines, etc.
Depends on which maxima-runtime-* pkg you're using.
According to RPM: maxima-runtime-sbcl-5.15.0-1.fc9.i386 I suppose that this must be the one that yum pulled in when I typed 'yum install maxima'.
For what it's worth, some lisp runtimes provide readline support and others don't. maxima-runtime-sbcl happens to be one that doesn't. I believe gcl, clisp *do* include readline support (and sbcl doesn't).