I have recently switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro 24.0. I have come across a strange issue with iex and erl. When I run either of them the arrow keys are not being picked up, I am unable to scroll through the command history or move the cursor left or right. I have figured out that the version of Erlang / OTP matters. Any version prior to 26.1 seems to exhibit this behaviour. Anything after that and the arrow keys work as normal in iex / erl.

I have tried using gnome-terminal, alacritty and urxvt but all of the terminals behave the same. I tried connecting to a server that is running OTP 25.0.2 and Elixir 1.13.4-otp-25 and even when connected to a remote console it still does not recognize the keys.

I have googled around and found the suggestion of adding ERL_AFLAGS='-kernel shell_history enabled' to the environment but this does not fix the issue. Other suggestions were to set my TERM environment to TERM=vt100 or TERM=xterm-256color but this did not help either.

I have exhausted all avenues that I can think of. Has anyone experienced this or have any idea why it might happen? Let me know if I can provide more details that may help.

Thanks