On 12/22/08, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Monday, December 22 at 06:15 AM, quoth Joseph:
> >> The arrow keys on the bottom right on you keyboard; for home/end 
> >> you have to press Fn+left/right (Fn -> bottom left of keyboard).
> >
> > What I would like is the real home/end keys. The Fn+left/right make the 
> > window go to the bottom or top via its local buffer.
> 
> Ahhh, you're using Apple Terminal. All you need to do to get those to 
> behave in a more unix-ey way is to change your terminal settings. For 
> example, on OS X 10.4, under the Terminal menu, you select "Window 
> Settings...". In the dialog box that comes up, select "Keyboard" from 
> the drop-down menu at the top, and from there you can change what the 
> home/end/pageup/pagedown keys do. In OS X 10.5 you can do the same 
> thing, but they rearranged how the preferences work. I don't have a 
> 10.5 machine handy, but I use them regularly, and I've done the same 
> thing to them - you'll just have to poke around.
> 
> Anyway, by default, like you say, Apple chose to make the 
> home/end/etc. keys work in the Terminal the way they work in other 
> applications: they manipulate the scroll bar. But it's relatively easy 
> to change them; it's just a preference setting in the Terminal 
> program.

Ah, that is looking/sounding better.

Now, if I can figure out what string should be sent.

It lets me control the scroll bar or send a string.

-- 
respectfully,
Joseph

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