From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020625 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.
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.