Camaleón wrote: > And I'm feel obliged to thank you for that :-) Glad it was useful and helpful. > In fact, I first asked for a similar question in the Spanish mailing list > a month ago or so, but no one suggested these "keyboard combos" and of > course, I was neither aware of it. They are not "keyboard combos" as I think of them. They are editor keys. By default the emacs editor but optionally the vi editor. > Bash manual provides "home/end" replacements As I recall things (meaning I don't have a reference but as I recall this) the home key went to the beginning of line and the end key went to the end of line. This was an MIT X Window System behavior. But on MS systems home went to the top of file and end to the bottom. With the many MS users overwhelming the number of Unix users the behavior was inevitably changed to follow the MS behavior. I am probably one of the very few people left who haven't given in and always customize home to be beginning of line and end to be end of line. But if you want begining of file then the emacs keys are M-< and M-> for meta-< and meta-> or ESC-< and ESC-> with ESC used to simulate the meta key. If you want beginning of line and end of line then C-a and C-e. > but I also looked for "page up/page down" key combos because my > netbook lacks for them. Page up and page down are called scroll up and scroll down in the emacs universe and by default would be C-v and M-v. In vi those would be control-d for down and control-b for backward. Different editors with different development histories and different use paradigms. The "war" between them has been legendary. And quite a bit of fun too. :-) In emacs the same 'v' key is a view key and the modifier of either control or meta causes the view to scroll either up or down. > While searching for a good way to mimic the > keys, I also found -by pure chance- these combos: > > ctrl-v = page up > ctrl-b = page down You mean the other way around. You have those flipped. But I know what you mean. As has been pointed out those are not in the shell but in less. Because less is merging multiple different use models together in one place. It is meaning C-v to be emacs-like for forward but C-b to be vi-like for backward. But that merging is less program specific. In the bash shell and others those keys do different things. But less is trying to accommodate both users at the same time and so has both sets of keys mostly active as much as is practical. Bob
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