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On Mac's iTerm app, when I ssh into remote machines and the connection is terminated by either power loss or connection failure, some of the time, readline in the terminal fails. At least, I think it's readline - the main symptom is that history-search-backward and history-search-forward no longer function. The part I can't understand is that it is broken on both the local and remote machines even after establishing a new connection. The other strange part is that the failure only happens some of the time, not every time I get disconnected.
I think this could be a problem with ssh, mac's terminal, or just the iTerm app, but I have no idea where to start looking. Any ideas would be appreciated, but with such a convoluted problem I can't really expect any solutions.
keflavich
Posted 2011-11-13T16:42:48.077
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This is not a programming related question. Superuser or askdifferent would be a better option. – Ikke – 2011-11-13T16:47:20.967
2Not sure what you're experiencing, but I suspect your terminal settings are getting thrown off by the way your ssh gets killed. Try typing "reset" in your terminal as a possible fix. – bigendian – 2011-11-13T17:13:32.663
Thanks, reset fixed it - is that documented anywhere? – keflavich – 2011-11-14T05:14:10.850
@Ikke: I flagged this post to be moved to superuser – keflavich – 2011-11-14T15:49:45.267
@bigendian - That's the solution. Is it documented anywhere? I'll accept it as an answer if you post it. I'm still curious why in case anyone else has a thought... – keflavich – 2011-12-02T21:14:40.747