Re: Yet another suddenly-weird xterm
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On Friday 11 January 2002 12:18 am, crispin@iinet.net.au wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:30:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:04 pm, crispin@iinet.net.au wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:26:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> snip...
>
> Your termcap seems fine. I would suggest it may be a problem with the
> readline library that bash is using. Probably a bug or a problem in the
> build. It may also be the bash build. Try the following on the computer
> that is not recognising home and end. You can make any key perform any
> function this way.
>
> type
>
> vi /etc/inputrc
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> then go down to the end of the file and add a line
>
> type "
>
> then (this is important), press ctrl-V, you should get a little ^
>
> then press home
>
> then close the quote and finish the line. It should read
>
> "^[OH": beginning-of-line
>
> Do the same for end
>
> "^[OF": end-of-line
>
> exit the shell and spawn a new bash.
>
> Does it work?
>
> This however has the possibility of screwing up other terminals. So if you
> use other terminals (which will send different cooked characters for home
> and end) then you should encase the definitions in an if block. like...
>
> $if term=xterm
> "^[OH": beginning-of-line
> "^[OF": end-of-line
> $endif
>
> info readline will give you more information, in particular the function
> and variable index will show you what you can bind key sequences to.
>
> If this fixes it, then their is probably a bug in the bash or readline deb
> that your using. Let us know what the following gives
>
> dpkg -l |grep bash
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> and
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> dpkg -l |grep readline
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> so a bug report can be made
That fixed it, even though the values were
"^[[1~": beginning-of-line
"^[[4~": end-of-line
and I had to add in the 2nd ", and descriptions.
Here are the installed packages:
# dpkg -l > dpkg.installed
# grep bash dpkg.installed
ii bash 2.05a-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii bash-doc 2.05a-3 Documentation and examples for the
# grep readline dpkg.installed
ii libreadline4 4.2a-3 GNU readline and history libraries
> $if term=xterm
Why isn't it $TERM?
Many thanks.
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