Strange caracters in the terminal

[Brownie2002]

Hello,

When I launch mcron in a linux terminal, the arrows to move inside the line are not recognised :

brownie@localhost:/tmp/mcrcon$ ./mcrcon -t
Logged in. Type 'quit' or 'exit' to quit.
>help
--------- Help: Index (1/11) --------------------
Use /help [n] to get page n of help.
Aliases: Lists command aliases
Bukkit: All commands for Bukkit
dynmap: All commands for dynmap
Minecraft: All commands for Minecraft
WorldBorder: All commands for WorldBorder
/advancement: A Mojang provided command.
/ban: A Mojang provided command.
/ban-ip: A Mojang provided command.
>ban @test^[[D^[[D

The @test^[[D^[[D are arrows keystrokes to the left, after writing test

I don't know if the issue is related to the terminal or the software.

Regards,

Brownie

[IPlayZed]

This is pretty much normal, if those keystrokes are not handled by the programmer. For instance try the telnet command and do the same thing, it will yield the same results. Right now you can only use delete (backwards, or the Del button on your keyboard) to correct the input. (But correct me if I am wrong.) I hope this explained it a bit. :D

[Tiiffi]

@IPlayZed you are righ.

Catching arrow keys etc. on console requires a bit more involved and platform specific code and that is the reason I haven't implemented it.

My goal was to keep the source code relatively simple and concise. I also tried to avoid 3rd party library dependencies.

Proper console inputs with arrow key and tab support would require either TUI library like Curses or alternatively platform specific implementations for every relevant platform.

[sludin]

FWIW I just added a pull request to incorporate readline for linux/osx (don't know enough WIN32 any more to even be dangerous). I think this takes care of this and issue #51 as well.

[Tiiffi]

Related to #51