* Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010316 15:44]: > home and end work for me in my xterms and eterms. could it be you are > using older versions or somthing? i remember at one point they didn't > work. but, i think it works using woody or unstable packages.
Well, I too thought once upon a time home/end worked as expected[0]; however, I found out how to make my text console run [EMAIL PROTECTED] recently and didn't run X much as a result. Recently I needed three terminals on screen at once, I decided to run X again, and none of my emulators work as I expect. The thing is, Debian policy has mandated these things to work as I expect in the past (including the whole delete/backspace mess) so I haven't had to deal with these issues since switching to Debian several years ago. Since I *thought* these worked as I expected at one point in the past without effort on my part, I would like to keep it that way. :) Come to think of it, I recall seeing an update to the termcap database during an apt-get upgrade recently. I wonder if the terminal capabilities changed out from underneath me as a result of this upgrade. I don't see any mention of similar problems in the debian-x archive for march or february... Thanks also to pplaw (bentley taylor) for the note about rxvt-xpm's -tr option. If I can figure out a way to make that do shading too then I am in business without mucking around with these others. :) Thanks everyone for showing why Debian's support is so cool. :) > > xterm doesn't let home/end work. > > aterm doesn't let home/end work. > > Eterm doesn't let home/end work. > > wterm doesn't let the numeric keypad work. [0]: As I re-read my original message, I see how hideously incomplete my description of desired result/actual result was. I expect home and end to work at the bash prompt -- in {x,a,E}term, home/end beep and print a tilde ~ character. Numeric keypad I tested in vim's insert mode, where I usually do the typing of numerals, but it would be nice if it worked in all applications. Currently, wterm prints a bunch of alphabetic characters, one per line, one per keypad press rather than the actual desired numeral. -- Earthlink: The #1 provider of unsolicited bulk email to the Internet.