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Bug#505297: marked as done (ncurses-base: Wrong terminfo for xterm keys up, down, end, home)

Your message dated Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:48:58 -0500 (EST)
with message-id <20091205184618.R3044@mail101.his.com>
and subject line Re: Bug#505297: #505297 ncurses-base: Wrong terminfo for xterm keys up, down, end, home
has caused the Debian Bug report #505297,
regarding ncurses-base: Wrong terminfo for xterm keys up, down, end, home
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Package: ncurses-base
Version: 5.7-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I'm in an XTerm (package version 237-1):

% echo $TERM
xterm
% infocmp -L G -Eo 'key_(home|end|up|down)=[^,]*'
key_down=\EOB
key_end=\EOF
key_home=\EOH
key_up=\EOA

but XTerm sends these sequences:

% read
^[[B^[[4~^[[1~^[[A

They match the sequences defined for the linux console and comply with
the recommend “9.8. Keyboard configuration” of the Debian Policy:

% infocmp -L linux G -Eo 'key_(home|end|up|down)=[^,]*'
key_down=\E[B
key_end=\E[4~
key_home=\E[1~
key_up=\E[A

So you should change the terminfo for xterm otherwise some programs might
not work, because they expect wrong key sequences read from the terminfo.

Bye, Jörg.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable/experimental
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ncurses-base depends on:
ii  libncurses5                   5.7-1      shared libraries for terminal hand

ncurses-base recommends no packages.

ncurses-base suggests no packages.

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On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote:


Hi Thomas,

Thomas Dickey hat am Fri 04. Dec, 20:45 (-0500) geschrieben:

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Jörg Sommer wrote:


But the applications jed and vi receive the strings:

Home: \E[1~
End: \E[4~


by the way, these codes come from a non-default setting


This was a good hint. I've found an old snippet in my .Xresources file.
After removing it, all works fine. So this wasn't a bug, but a failure
of mine.


sounds good (I got on the wrong track with the application-mode ;-)

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