Your message dated Mon, 9 May 2011 13:53:23 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#626153: ncurses-base: incorrect khome and kend for
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regarding ncurses-base: incorrect khome and kend for xterm
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Package: ncurses-base
Version: 5.9-1
Severity: minor
Hello,
I seems that the terminfo entry for xterm has incorrect khome and kend:
khome=\EOH, kend=\EOF.
I used xterm to determine what it actually sends for khome and kend, which is:
khome=\E[H, kend=\E[F.
I found this issue while using konsole, which impersonates xterm, and did not
work properly with my Zsh configured to bind key according to terminfo. I
thought it was a bug in konsole wich may not have implemented the same bindings
as xterm, but it appears that it does implement them as xterm. So in fact the
same problem affects both xterm and konsole.
By the way, the terminfo entry for konsole has the same problem, but as
Debian's console impersonates xterm it does not matter.
Regards,
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I have just found that in fact, such a behaviour is just how xterm is
(badly) designed to work:
<http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_arrows>.
In its default mode, xterm sends a given set of codes, and in
application mode, another one. The terminfo entry is for the application
mode only.
I find this insane but it is how it is supposed to work, so this is not
a bug. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Regards,
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