Re: Home/End keys do not work

[George Chelidze <wrath@geo.net.ge>]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
>
>>On 2005-03-22 16:49:13 +0300, George Chelidze wrote:
>>
>>>I have recently installed Debian Woody on my workstation. I have a
>>>couple of RedHat 7.3 boxes. I run gnome, gnome-terminal and ssh into 
one
>>>of redhat boxes without a problem. Then I run mc (Midnight Commander)
>>>and edit a file with F4. If I press Home key, "H" is inserted before 
the
>>>cursor instead of placing it at the beggining of the line. If I press
>>>End key, "F" is inserted. Everything works fine when I ssh to another
>>>debian box. Everything works fine when I ssh from my box to any other
>>>box without using X (in text mode). Any ideas?
>>
>
> The home/end keys may differ between terminal emulators (and are 
configurable
> in more than one).  You need to match the terminfo against the terminal
> emulator's settings.
>
>
>>How about other terminals (e.g. xterm)?
>
>
>>Depending on the terminal, terminfo ($TERM), and the configuration
>>of the terminal, there are several possible escape sequences for
>>the Home and End keys.
>
>
>>BTW, Emacs has a problem with the End key with xterm-vt220:
>
>
>>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=173983
>
>
> That's an emacs bug: vt220's don't have an end-key.  A vt220 emulator on
> a PC keyboard usually uses the home/end keys for find/select.  Tera Term
> is different: is uses home/pageup for that pair, and end/pagedown for the
> ppage/npage combination.
>

First, Sorry for my late response to all who replied to my question.
Terminals are xterm on all boxes. I decided to use "Learn Keys" feature
of mc and it works fine.

Thanks a lot.

--
George Chelidze