On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Greetings, > I use PuTTY to ssh into my boxen. I recently upgraded a couple of them > to > woody, and the {home} and {end} keys don't seem to work properly anymore, > instead of going to the beginning or end of the line, they produce a tilde > and a beep. They function properly at the console, but not when I ssh into > the boxes. How do I adjust them back to their original functionality.
xterms also behave slightly funny. Here's my /etc/inputrc which you can adapt to your needs. (Perhaps you want to set xterm like behaviour by default, and then use normal console behaviour for hard logins.) # /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline # See readline(3readline) and `info rluserman' for more information. # Be 8 bit clean. set input-meta on set output-meta on # To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment # out # the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta # key, # which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit # characters. # set convert-meta off # Make keyboard work right with xterms $if term=xterm "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[4~": end-of-line "\e[d": backward-word "\e[c": forward-word $endif