On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:57:16PM +0000, Guldo K wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2003 20:40:15 +0200 > "Rodney D. Myers" <rdmyers@pe.net> wrote: > > > I like the RH way of bash shell behaviour., Utilizing the home & end > > keys, to move around the bash prompt. > I liked it too!, but now... (see below) > > > Is there someplace that I can read up on how to change this behaviour on > > the shell? > I don't know... for me it has always worked... I can't directly help you. For me it Just Works in console (TERM=linux) and in an xterm (TERM=xterm). However, while most of my system is standard Woody, the X is 4.2.0 built from source. I have installed Woody on a couple of systems recently and found it's OK in console but Doesn't Work in an xterm. Unfortunately, I don't know why. > Usually bash is set up to behave emacs-like (see man bash), so you can use > CTRL+a in place of HOME > CTRL+e in place of END > > If you use emacs, you'd find them comfortable; > if you don't use emacs, you'd find them comfortable too :-) > (HOME and END are so irritatingly *far* from the 'main' keyboard :-P) Yeah, but HOME and END are single keystrokes :-) > p.s.: BTW, you know about CTRL+r, do you? nice! "Search history". Yes, it's cool! -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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