On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:06:16 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:10:12AM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> Bash manual provides "home/end" replacements but I also looked for >> "page up/page down" key combos because my netbook lacks for them. While >> searching for a good way to mimic the keys, I also found -by pure >> chance- these combos: >> >> ctrl-v = page up >> ctrl-b = page down > > Are you sure about that?
Hum... yes? > What terminal/shell are you using? "gnome-terminal" and "echo $SHELL" returns "/bin/bash". It also works in tty1. And just tested on xterm and works fine. Use case: dmesg|less > On all my systems using bash whether in VT or xterm CTRL-B is like left > cursor, the partners to that are CTRL-F (right cursor), CTRL-P (up > cursor), CTRL-N (down cursor). These are mnemonic for back, forward, > previous and next. > > CTRL-V allows you to enter a literal control character for display, i.e. > CTRL-V CTRL-M will put ^M on the screen. It's actually , but I don't > know how well that'll come across in email. How are you testing all that? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.09.10.15.27...@gmail.com
