Peter Tribble wrote: > 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.
No it hasn't. The terminfo doesn't define the keys so that they get sent to the terminal application. As such, if I hit page up or page down in a terminal, I just get '~' characters instead of my cursor moving to the beginning and end of line. >> 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.) A long time ago I suggested a "profiles" setup to help users from CDE, etc. While it isn't appropriate to ask questions like that on first boot, making it easy to get somewhere to easily change all of the settings to be more like one environment or another seems like a good thing to me. -- Shawn Walker
