I haven't had these problems with Terminal.app, but then again I've been
running /bin/bash instead of the default tcsh. Look in
Terminal|Preferences|Execute this comand

The home/etc keys are not mapped, so you could use the emacs-standard
keys for command line editing - ^a (bol), ^e (eol) and so on.

Tab completes on filenames works fine.

If you need multiple sessions under keyboard control, either use the
command~ mentioned on another posting, or install and run screen.

However, Terminal.app has some seriously odd problem - system busy
delays up to a couple of seconds when hitting return, regardless of
application being run. I switched to Eterm, blackbox window manager and
X windows. If you really want to be keyboard driven, look at the ion
window manager.

-jim

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:13:59AM -0500, Sam Roberts wrote:
> I don't know if this is the right forum, but I really want to make this
> work, and I don't know where else to ask, and it involves getting the
> fink-installed tools working for me, so...
> 
> Summary: I need to be able to run my s/w devel environment from inside Terminal.
> 
> I'm getting killed by things like:
> 
> I can't get home/end/pageup/pagedown passed to the shell or curses
> applications.
> 
> If I do a ":sp start-of-file-name" and type TAB to do file name completion, I get ^I
> displayed.
> 
> If I do a ":sp" I get two windows, but ^w^w should switch between them,
> and it silently does nothing.
> 
> ^u at a command line prompt does nothing.
> 
> 
> I have tried iTerm. It appears to have many of the same problems
> (+display bugs, +segved 1 minute after running the latest version).
> 
> So far, xterm is the only thing that seems to work for me.
> 
> 
> Is it what people are using?
> 
> The problems I have with xterm is I can find no way to switch between
> running xterms from the keyboard (this is the window managers job, and
> quartz-wm doesn't have any (documented) way to do this). I really don't
> want to have to wave a mouse to get between windows. Is there another
> way?
> 
> Any help, or pointers would be *very* appreciated.
> 
> Also, is anybody running konqueror? Safari has some fairly irritating
> habbits, and I'd like to bring my bookmark file across from old box.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam
> 
> 
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