Chiel ten Brinke added the comment:
I called it a bug, because command history etc. works when debugging in a
single terminal. It only fails when debugging remotely/in a separate terminal.
But if this is not due to a improper implementation, it should indeed be an
enhancement
New submission from Chiel ten Brinke:
There are several reasons why one would need to debug in a terminal window
other than the debuggee terminal window, for instance when we have a curses
application.
The pdb doesn't support a tty command like gdb, which would allow this.
Instead,