Bug 380381

Summary: zsh: home/end buttons not working in zsh on F8
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Josef Bacik <jbacik>
Component: zshAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Josef Bacik 2007-11-13 16:41:29 UTC
Description of problem:
The home/end buttons are not doing what they are supposed to in zsh in F8.  If 
I hit either of them I just get weird characters in my terminal.  I've tested 
this with urxvt,xterm,yakuake and gnome-terminal and I get the same behavior.  
This was working in F7.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
zsh-4.3.4-4.fc8.x86_64

How reproducible:
everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type a long command
2.hit the home button
  
Actual results:
I get a ~ instead of going to the start of the line

Expected results:
I should go to the start/end of the line where appropriate.

Comment 1 Daniel Qarras 2008-08-31 16:57:48 UTC
I removed all my ~/.z* files and also saw this with zsh-4.3.4-8.fc9.i386. I tested on Linux console / xterm /gnome-terminal and was able to produce the following set of bindkey commands, with them backspace/delete/insert/home/end/pgup/pgdown work for me on those three terminals when using zsh.

Perhaps these could be added to /etc/zshrc (at least in comments if there are some things that might break - I can't imagine anything, however).

bindkey '\e[1~'   beginning-of-line  # Linux console
bindkey '\e[H'    beginning-of-line  # xterm
bindkey '\eOH'    beginning-of-line  # gnome-terminal
bindkey '\e[2~'   overwrite-mode     # Linux console, xterm, gnome-terminal
bindkey '\e[3~'   delete-char        # Linux console, xterm, gnome-terminal
bindkey '\e[4~'   end-of-line        # Linux console
bindkey '\e[F'    end-of-line        # xterm
bindkey '\eOF'    end-of-line        # gnome-terminal

PS. If something is still missing for some other terminal type, just pressing Ctrl+V followed by the offending key shows its keycode and then additional binding can easily be added.

Thanks.

Comment 2 Daniel Qarras 2008-08-31 16:59:24 UTC
PS. Without these binding and no ~/.z* no home/end/delete/insert worked so above is a *minimal* set bindings I could came up with.

Comment 3 Daniel Qarras 2008-10-04 09:17:16 UTC
Still seeing this with F10Beta.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 05:11:41 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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