On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:19:49PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39:39PM EST, Mike McClain wrote: > > > I work mainly on the commandline and have setup my own inputrc and > > a script that calls loadkeys for readline editing functions in bash such > > as ^Home --> bash:backward-kill-line but never used bind by itself. > > > > Speaking of which, these mappings don't seem to carry over into xterm. > > Can you point the way to setup similar bash functionality in xterm? > > I would suspect this may have to do with navigation keys support in > XTerm .. arrows, Home.. End.. Pgup.. etc. I don't know the details > because I do my best NOT to use any keys that live beyond my stubby > fingers' reach but if you google for something like ???xterm arrow keys??? > or ???xterm home end key??? etc. you should quickly be able to tell whether > this is relevant or yet just another bad guess on my part. If I guessed > right, it's likely going to boil down to your terminal description (cf. > the contents of the $TERM environment variable) - not describing such > capabilities for the benefit of client applications. Mileage solving > problems in this area varies.
After a day spent reading several articles on X and xterm I finally came to the realization that the use of bind you pointed out earlier in this thread would do what I wanted. Using ^v to see what the key combinations were sending it wasn't much trouble to put together a file to feed to bind to set the bindings I wanted. mike@/deb40a:~> cat xterm_bindings # xterm bindings 2/17/11 Mc # use: bind -f xterm_bindings # ^Home "\M-[1;5H": backward-kill-line # ^End "\M-[1;5F": kill-line # ^Del "\M-[3;5~": kill-whole-line # ^BS "\C-H": backward-kill-word # ^Left "\M-[1;5D": backward-word # ^Right "\M-[1;5C": forward-word I use these readline editing bindings on the CL all the time and really missed them in xterm. Thanks for your help, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110218064727.GA6305@playground
