When testing with this board, stdin is not a tty, and so
readline/editing is disabled:
$ ssh localhost gdb -q
(gdb) show editing
Editing of command lines as they are typed is off.
(gdb)
Rename the file, to make room for a version of this board that forces a pseudo-tty.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-05-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* boards/local-remote-host.exp: Rename to ...
* boards/local-remote-host-notty.exp: ... this.
+2014-05-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
+
+ * boards/local-remote-host.exp: Rename to ...
+ * boards/local-remote-host-notty.exp: ... this.
+
2014-04-28 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* gdb.ada/dyn_arrayidx: New testcase.