term=xterm is used for avoiding to remove lines in vim when is pressed some specific key combination.
Josef ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Amadeusz Sławiński" <am...@asmblr.net> | To: screen-devel@gnu.org | Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 11:51:09 PM | Subject: Re: [screen-devel] screen + tcsh | | On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:28:29 -0400 (EDT) | Josef Ridky <jri...@redhat.com> wrote: | | > Hi, | > | > I would like to ask for one thing about keybinding in screen. | > Following problem is the reason, why am I asking: | > | > ----------------------------------- | > Description of problem: | > The home and end keys no longer work in screen when using tcsh as | > shell. | > | > Steps to Reproduce: | > 1. start screen: | > $ screen | > | > 2. start tcsh | > $ tcsh | > | > 3. make sure home and end are bound: | > $ bindkey | egrep '^(home|end)' | > home -> beginning-of-line | > end -> end-of-line | > | > 4. press home or end | > | > Actual results: | > pressing "home" and "end" prints a "~". | > | > Expected results: | > cursor jumps to the beginning or end of the line. | > ----------------------------------- | > | > I think, that this behavior is caused by using 'term=xterm' in config | > file. Problem is, that this line has to be in the config file, | > because it solves other, much worse problem. | > | > Does anyone know, how to solve this without removing term=xterm? | > Thanks for your ideas. | > | > Regards | > | > Josef Ridky | > Associate Software Engineer | > Core Services Team | > Red Hat Czech, s.r.o. | > | > | | Hi, | | yes, this may behave the way you describe, because terminfo entries for | those terms are different | | On my system: | % infocmp xterm| grep 'khome\|kend' | kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\EOF, kent=\EOM, kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[21~, | kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~, khome=\EOH, kich1=\E[2~, | % infocmp screen| grep 'khome\|kend' | kend=\E[4~, kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[21~, kf11=\E[23~, | khome=\E[1~, kich1=\E[2~, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~, nel=\EE, | | Notice that khome and kend are different. | | You may also compare escapes generated by those keys between outside | and inside of screen by typing 'Ctrl+v, home' and 'Ctrl+v, End'. | | To fix this you can try adding something like this to your screenrc | termcapinfo xterm @7=\E[4~:kh=\E[1~ | | (magic letters are from 'man terminfo') | | | Btw, what worse problem does it solve? | | BR, | Amadeusz | |
