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Re: home/end keys wren't working in rxvt?
From: |
Eugeny N Dzhurinsky |
Subject: |
Re: home/end keys wren't working in rxvt? |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:26:22 +0300 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) |
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:19:51AM -0400, Andy Harrison wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have bash, running in screen, and the terminal used is RXVT. For some
> > reason
> > home/end keys aren't working in terminal for bash shell prompt, but when I
> > starting bash outside screen (in RXVT) - everything works fine.
> >
> > What could be wrong there and how to fix it?
>
> Probably typical broken TERMCAP garbage. I use tcsh and my .tcshrc
> file, I have this line to wipe out the TERMCAP and then everything
> behaves properly for me.
>
> if ($term == "screen") then
> unsetenv TERMCAP
> endif
>
> Try duplicating that in bash and it will probably fix the issue.
Well, I had set the term to "rxvt" in .screenrc
however unsetting TERMCAP caused home/end keys to work well in mutt, but not
in shell itself.
I found screen really sets the termcap variable to something strange, so
probably unsetting it is good idea.
--
Eugene N Dzhurinsky
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