On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:06 AM, dick hoogendijk <dick at nagual.nl> wrote: >>> >>> Peter Tribble wrote: >>>> >>>> I don't think so. Bug 6419901 says that PgUp/PgDown/Home/End should move >>>> the scrollbar without needing to press shift. >>> >>> Why should HOME or END move the scrollbar. I NO other terminal program is >>> this done. Home / End mean beginning/ending of the line; Ctrl-PgUp / >>> Ctrl-PgDn DO scroll the scrollbar after the changes in the terminfo xterm >>> file. >> >> For consistency with other applications and past behaviour. > > That depends on which past you're talking about.
Well, I'm talking about myself, clearly. I know that I'm not alone. > Ideally, the default behaviour would be changed such that page up, page > down, home and are all sent to the terminal application (just as they are in > the majority of other platforms) That is the OpenSolaris behaviour and has been for two and a half years. > and a legacy behaviour option added for > those used to the older behaviour. That's all I've been asking for. I don't care what the defaults are, as long as I'm able to somehow get the system to behave in a manner I consider sensible. Currently, those of us who can't abide the current behaviour are completely left out in the cold. (Or, in my case, happily running Solaris 10 because that doesn't drive me to distraction.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
