Bug 68416 - /etc/inputrc doesn't match behaviour of xterm
Summary: /etc/inputrc doesn't match behaviour of xterm
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: setup
Version: limbo
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-10 01:26 UTC by Michael Schwendt
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-07-10 01:26:19 UTC
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Description Michael Schwendt 2002-07-10 01:26:15 UTC
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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.

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.



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