Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:42:34PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Russell wrote:
> > To activate the Home and End keys (dedicated or keypad ones) in xterm,
> > press ctrl+button 2 (mouse left+right) to get the xterm "VT Options"
> > menu, then select "Enable Application Cursor Keys". Alternatively,
> > type: echo -n "^[[?1h", where ^[ is the literal ESC character.
>
> Man, if you know how long I have been stuggling with this (and many users
> too). Why isn't this the standard in Debian (e.g. keys ought to do what
> you expect them to do, not just *beep*)?
I'd been under the impression it was just a bug. xterms in unstable work
fine.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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