Joey Hess writes ("Bug#4298: arrow keys in dselect don't work after search"): ... > I'm running dselect in an xterm. I go to the "[S]elect" part of it, and > the up and down addor keys scroll through the list of packages. But when I > type "/mosaic\n", to search for mosaic, the arrow keys stop working. > ctrl-p and ctrl-n still work, as do pageup and pagedown and all the other > keys, except for the up and down arrows.
This is a four-month-old bug in ncurses, which has previously been reported as #2962 and #3974. I'm reassigning it to ncurses3.0 and merging it with those others. Ian.