Arch Linux

Description:
When sftp-ing to a server, up/down arrows and TAB keys don't provide expected history and command-completion. Instead arrows display garble text like "^[[A" and TAB displays a tabulation. This can be fixed with the "--with-libedit" compilation option.

Additional info:
Here is a simple diff of the proposed PKGBUILD:

--- PKGBUILD (revision 105507)
+++ PKGBUILD (working copy)
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
license=('custom')
url="http://www.openssh.org/portable.html"
backup=('etc/ssh/ssh_config' 'etc/ssh/sshd_config' 'etc/pam.d/sshd')
-depends=('openssl' 'zlib' 'pam' 'tcp_wrappers' 'heimdal')
+depends=('openssl' 'zlib' 'pam' 'tcp_wrappers' 'heimdal' 'libedit')
source=("ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
'sshd' 'sshd.confd' 'sshd.pam')
md5sums=('e6ee52e47c768bf0ec42a232b5d18fb0'
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --with-tcp-wrappers --with-privsep-user=nobody \
--with-md5-passwords --with-pam --with-mantype=man --mandir=/usr/share/man \
--with-xauth=/usr/bin/xauth --with-kerberos5=/usr --with-ssl-engine \
- --disable-strip
+ --with-libedit=/usr/lib --disable-strip
make || return 1
}

Steps to reproduce:
sftp mysecured.server.com
mysecured.server.com password:
Connected to mysecured.server.com
sftp>
# Press UP arrow
sftp> ^[[A