Ctrl-p和Ctrl-n在Docker下意外运行

Question

For the life of me I can't seem to figure out why ctrl - p and ctrl - n don't work like they're supposed to under the Docker images I have been working with. ctrl - p should work just like the up arrow but I usually have to press it twice to get the last command I ran. And it cycles through the history in what seems to be a random fashion.

Maybe someone can help me make some sense of this.

docker run -it buildpack-deps:trusty # run a Linux based image

root@74cbcf321fae:/# ls
bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lib64  ...
root@74cbcf321fae:/# touch hello

If I press up here, it should show the touch command, followed by ls . If I press Ctrl - p however, nothing comes up the fist time. When I press it again, ls appears magically.

Can someone help me make sense of these. I can't live without Ctrl - p and Ctrl - n .

Answer 1

It looks like this has been removed (or moved) in the Docs, but it used to live here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/attach/

Edit : It looks like they reference the below in the Configuration Files documentation.

The command sequence to detach from a docker container is ctrl - p ctrl - q , which is why ctrl - p doesn't work as expected. When you hit ctrl - p , docker is waiting on ctrl - q , so nothing happens.

You can use the new --detach-keys argument to docker run to override this sequence to be something other than ctrl - p :

docker run -ti --detach-keys="ctrl-@" ubuntu:14.04 bash

$# ls
$# <--- Ctrl-P here will display ls now
$# <--- Ctrl-@ here will detach from the running container

If you want, you can add this to your ~/.docker/config.json file to persist this change:

{
    ...
    "detachKeys": "ctrl-@",
    ...
}

More details on this can be found here: https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/15666 as I can't find it in the docs anymore.