Re: home and end keys not working in xterm

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> #include <hallo.h>
> Sebastiaan wrote on Wed Aug 01, 2001 um 08:34:56PM:
> 
> > > "\e[1~": beginning-of-line
> > > "\e[3~": delete-char
> 
> A kludge, should not be used.
> 
> > > "\e[4~": end-of-line
> > > "\e[d": backward-word
> > > "\e[c": forward-word
> > > 
> > Does not work for me. I am running woody. Any ideas?
> 
> I helped me with forcing xterm to send other keycodes, but the problem
> is here. Feel free to report this as a bug. As far as I know all
> X-Terminal programs are in sync with current termcap database, all but
> xterm, which send broken key sequences to programs inside the terminal.
> 
> So, this ~/XTerm file helped:
> ---
> *VT100.Translations: #override ~Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta <Key>Home: string("\033OH")\n\
>                                ~Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta <Key>End: string("\033OF")
> ---
Nope, still no success. It started when upgrading to woody two months ago.
So it is an xterm bug? I will file a bug report.

Thanks,
Sebastiaan