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Re: my left arrow key doesn't work!



On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:54:44AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> when typing at an xterm, my backspace key works (it rubs out the last
> character) but my left arrow key doesn't (it doesn't move the cursor to the
> left by one).
> 
> i know there's a way to fix this, but searching man pages turned up nothing.
> can someone help me out?  this is very annoying!

Not the solution you want, but you can use "ctrl-B" (think "B"ack).

I used to have problems with my Meta keys acting funny when I had the
NumLock on in X, but never an arrow key.

Rob

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