retitle 402360 aptitude: Please document Ctrl-based keybindings for page
up/down in quick help
thanks
Hi Daniel,
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:11:01PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > it would be nice to have some ASCII key-bindings for scrolling up and
> > dow page-wise if the PageUp / PageDown keys don't work because of the
> > terminal or something in between doesn't support them.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > (If there are such keybindings, it would be good to have them
> > documented in the help popping up with "?" nowadays.)
>
> Hm, do you have a terminal where C-f and C-b don't work?
Yes. Never noticed any terminal breaking Ctrl-based keybindings
(except C-? and C-d aka Delete and Backspace and sometimes C-h :-) --
and Ctrl-based keybindings are ASCII...
Hey, they work fine! Thanks! (Although I wouldn't have expected such
keybindings for Page Up/Down as an Emacsian. :-)
> (M-* is pretty much out for now -- AFAIK there's no reliable way
> to detect the meta modifier using straight curses)
Yeah, you're right there. Notice that always with Emacs over some
ssh/screen/etc. connections. You either have to prepend all umlauts
with C-q or Delete-Word (M-d aka "รค") doesn't work and needs to be
typed as "Esc d".
> It looks like none of PageUp, PageDown, C-f, C-b, Home, End, C-a, C-e,
> and probably a couple other common shortcuts are documented in the
> quick-help.
You're right, C-f and C-b are not documented in the quick-help of
Sid's version of aptitude.
I retitled this bug report so that it's clear that this fact is the
real bug. :-)
Regards, Happy New Year and Thanks again, Axel
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Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://abe.home.pages.de/
