Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/07/15 18:00, Gevisz wrote:
>> bindkey '^[[7~' beginning-of-line # Home (xterm)
>> bindkey '^[[8~' end-of-line # End (xterm)
>
> lol... are these guys serious?
>
> It's 2015...
... and yet the way of handling special keys in terminals has not
changed: You cannot rely on any special sequence, since it depends
on the terminal type (and changes also nowadays, depending on
whether you use xterm, screen, tmux, linux console, ...).
This is the reason why any fixed default can be wrong: What works in
one terminal can break in another.
The zsh way of doing this dynamically is much superior to the bash
way of doing this statically in a fixed readline config file
(which works only because *gentoo* provided a file which works
for *most* linux terminals - I also had serious problems with bash
and such keys when ssh-ing to e.g. sun stations; with zsh these
problems are easily fixable).
One way to avoid the multiterm difficulty is to use the terminfo database
of your current terminal. In zsh you do this as follows:
bindkey ${terminfo[khome]} beginning-of-line
bindkey ${terminfo[kend]} end-of-line
(Yes, in zsh you usually do not have to quote variabeles!).
Note, however, that the above sets the keys only to your *current*
terminal. If you call e.g. tmux later on and move your session to
another terminal or you login from another terminal, you might again
have problems, so it might be a good idea to set some sequences
also for other terminals.
Again, I recommend you to use zshrc-mv from the mv overlay where
all this (and much more) is done.
