home and end not working Debian Sarge

home and end not working Debian Sarge

[Angelina Carlton]

Hello

I have a Debian Sarge computer and a Sid computer, On Sarge if I press
the home or end keys in any buffer it simply puts a ~ into the buffer.

On the Sid computer it works as expected and calls M-x end-of-buffer
or M-x beginning-of-buffer.

So to eliminate the my configuration file I ran emacs -q but got the
same problem.

The Sarge box has no X installed, I ssh into it. On the command line,
outside emacs, C-v(home) C-v(end) both produce ^[[7~^[[8~ on both
computers so it seems my terminals are set up properly.

The only way for me to jump to the end of a file is to use the M-x
end-of-buffer command which gets annoying pretty quickly.

If I fire up vim, home and end keys work (they do beginning and end of
line in vim) So it seems that because Vim works and the shell C-v works
it is not a problem with my setup, but emacs -q wont fix it so its not a
problem with my ~/.emacs file. I guess these are reasonably safe
assumptions?

M-x version:
Sarge:
GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-cc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian
Sid: 
GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-WC-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian 

I have tried to set it directly into my ~/.emacs

;; home and end goto beginner and end of file
(global-set-key [(end)] 'end-of-buffer)
(global-set-key[(home)] 'beginning-of-buffer)

this does not work either. Please if you have any idea how to fix this
let me know!

Thank you.

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Re: home and end not working Debian Sarge

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.07.2005 um 14:57 schrieb Angelina Carlton:

> The Sarge box has no X installed, I ssh into it. On the command line,
> outside emacs, C-v(home) C-v(end) both produce ^[[7~^[[8~ on both
> computers so it seems my terminals are set up properly.
>

I think you should make Emacs to load "vt220" or whatever emulation is 
active when in some terminal (or window-system is nil).

Look into /usr/local/share/emacs/<version>/lisp/term/vt100.el and then 
/usr/local/share/emacs/<version>/lisp/term/lk201.el how they translate 
multi-byte sequences like ^[[7~ or \e[7~ to something useful like home 
or end. If not (I just looked into lk201.el) just add it into your VT 
or terminal specific file. Copy one of them to a new file name 
according to the terminal (or emulation) type and then add your unknown 
keys there!

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Re: home and end not working Debian Sarge

[Angelina Carlton]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Look into /usr/local/share/emacs/<version>/lisp/term/vt100.el and then
> /usr/local/share/emacs/<version>/lisp/term/lk201.el how they translate
> multi-byte sequences like ^[[7~ or \e[7~ to something useful like home
> or end. If not (I just looked into lk201.el) just add it into your VT
> or terminal specific file. Copy one of them to a new file name
> according to the terminal (or emulation) type and then add your
> unknown keys there!

Thank you,

I had set $TERM to be xterm, even though I use urxvt, this makes screen
behave properly for some reason. Anyway adding..

(define-key function-key-map "\e[7~" [home]) 
(define-key function-key-map "\e[8~" [end])

to /usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/term/xterm.el works like a charm,

thanks again.
   
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