Bug 68416

Summary: /etc/inputrc doesn't match behaviour of xterm
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael>
Component: setupAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Michael Schwendt 2002-07-10 01:26:15 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The escape sequences generated by xterm for the Pos1/Home & End keys don't match
those configured in /etc/inputrc.

$ rpm -q setup
setup-2.5.13-3

$ xterm -v
XFree86 4.2.0(165)

Pos1/Home gives: ^[[7~
End gives: ^[[8~

But /etc/inputrc contains:

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line

I had to change it to

"\e[7~": beginning-of-line
"\e[8~": end-of-line

in my local ~/.inputrc (as if it was for old rxvt) to work correctly.
Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2002-07-10 02:00:35 UTC 
D'oh! The cause of it were my own overrides via X resources, because xterm and
rxvt never had been consistent with regard to this.