Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)
On Thursday 24 October 2002 04:23 pm, Bob Proulx 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.
>
> Why do you have to activate them? What are you doing to deactivate
> them?
>
> > > 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.
>
> As far as I can tell on many machines xterms in stable work fine.
> Perhaps they got broken in testing now fixed in unstable?
>
on my sid box, home/end work just fine, in xterm, eterm, and aterm. file a
bug for testing.
ben
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