[MPICH] Keyboard input with -gdb option?

[Ralph Butler]

This does not happen to me.   mpiexec is merely taking stdin.  It  
sounds like a terminal
configuration issue.  The cmd "stty -a" can be used to determine the  
keystrokes associated
with backspace, del, etc.
--ralph

On MonSep 18, at Mon Sep 18 5:31PM, James Frye wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use the -gdb option of mpiexec, but am running into a  
> rather annoying problem.  It seems that whatever function is used  
> to pass keystrokes to the debugger instances must bypass normal  
> keyboard handling, because nothing other than the alphanumeric keys  
> seem to work.  For instance, if I try to use the backspace key to  
> correct a typo, it writes ^H to the screen, and appends a literal  
> ^H to the input buffer.  That mean that I essentially have to type  
> everything perfectly, or my debugging session crashes.
>
> Since that sort of manual dexterity isn't my strong suit, I'm  
> getting kind of frustrated.  Is there some way to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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