From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: poppyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: arrow keys in the console Date: 19 May 2007 15:58:54 +0100 Organization: University Of Oxford, England Message-ID: References: <87646qoaow.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> <877ir5fsbb.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179589233 565 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2007 15:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 15:40:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 19 17:40:32 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 1HpR2l-0004TJ-DQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 17:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpR2l-0004Zl-0V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 11:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.mediascape.de!demorgan.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: clpc78.comlab.ox.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: frank-exchange-of-views.oucs.ox.ac.uk 1179586734 31585 163.1.27.212 (19 May 2007 14:58:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@ox.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 14:58:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148599 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:44191 Archived-At: I think it is not emacs's bug. Because mine works very well here in the TERM=linux console, except the [home][end] key. I think this is probably due to distribution-specific termcap setting. Maybe fire a bug report for the using linux distribution instead. Peter Dyballa writes: > > > > Well, you're right. Setting TERM=xterm fixed the arrow keys, but > > page-up and page-down still act funny. > > Open ~/.emacs and then work on this loop: > > M-x global-set-key RET RET RET > C-x Esc Esc C-a C-k C-g ; repeat last command, > beginning, kill line, quit > C-x b .emacs RET > C-y > > Finally save ~/.emacs. > > The cursor movement functions are previous-line, next-line, backward- > char, and forward-char. > > > Since there is a file /usr/local/share/emacs/22.1.50/lisp/term/ > linux.el I wonder whether it's worth to write a bug report about the > behaviour of your GNU Emacs in that "linux" terminal. It would be > worth to mention the actual key bindings of your system! > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > When confronted with actual numbers, a mathematician is at a loss. > (Steffen Hokland) > > > > --