Command line history & tab-completion for sftp in OS X Terminal.app

Question

I use Terminal.app constantly. When connecting via ssh to remote *nix systems, I can continue to use tab to complete command names and arrow-up/down to navigate the command history. However, with sftp this does not work, and I get [-escaped sequences for the latter and a literal tab for the former.

Any way to get this to work? Anything to do with readline?

Answer 1

Check out with-readline. There's an example using sftp there.

Answer 2

You can also try yafc.