From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: arrow keys in the console Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:25:19 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87646qoaow.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179473576 22339 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2007 07:32:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 07:32:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 09:32:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HowxH-0000cp-Tw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 09:32:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hox5S-0005XM-AB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 03:41:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Trace: individual.net W/o385BA4gKvzt20FtQ10Q8SqgKMbet+IMYS64rhXSblOyMFeZ Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NWM1YjUwNzBkNGE0MWM5YTllZWZkMWJiYTkyODc3MDBjZjRmYTZjNA== Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148537 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44129 Archived-At: Tyler Smith writes: > Hi,=20 > > I'm having some issues with the arrow keys in the console, or when > running emacs -nw under X. If I use any of the arrow keys the cursor > moves up one paragraph and adds a letter to the screen. It's a > different letter for each key. I thought I might have something in X > or the console screwed up, but the arrows seem to work fine in mutt, > the command line, slrn etc. How do I fix this for emacs? > > Here's the quoted output of up, down, right, left, pageup, and > pagedown, if that helps: > > =1B[A=1B[B=1B[C=1B[D=1B[5~=1B[6~ You can fix it by setting the right value for the TERM environment variable. What terminal emulator or what kind of console do you use? For example, I use xterm, so I write: TERM=3Dxterm ; export TERM in my ~/.bashrc file. Otherwise, you can rebind the commands dynamically: M-x global-set-key RET RET previous-line RET M-x global-set-key RET RET next-line RET M-x global-set-key RET RET forward-char RET M-x global-set-key RET RET backward-char RET etc... --=20 __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ NOTE: The most fundamental particles in this product are held together by a "gluing" force about which little is currently known and whose adhesive power can therefore not be permanently guaranteed.