thanks Scott,
I am getting there... slowly.... I've established I need glib/glib-devel (I
thought I glibc-devel was the same thing)
I downloaded an rpm for glib and it's not installing, and i'm wondering about
isntalling the mandrake source code and compiling that.
As always in Linux, one step forward and a dozen steps back...
Brendan
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 22:44, you wrote:
> Okay, I've implemented your suggestions:
>
> -- Shift-Left will now go to the start of a word, instead of the end.
> -- Shift-Right & Shift-Left will now wrap lines
> -- Shift-Home has been added to go to the first position of the current
> field.
>
> These are in CVS for the 0.17.x branch. Once they've had a bit more
> exposure, I'll merge them into the 0.16.x branch as well...
>
> Please let me know what you think of the way they work, now...
>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Martin Rowe wrote:
> > Hi Scott
> >
> > > Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] Re: TN5250 0.16.2 released!
> > > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:57:32 -0500 (CDT)
> > > From: Scott Klement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > <snipped>
> >
> > > It shouldn't be sending '[2C' or '[2D' the changes to the XTerm file
> > > should be causing it to send ESC Ctrl-H (left) and ESC Ctrl-U (right)
> > > (that is, \033\010 and \033\025, respectively)
> > >
> > > Are you sure that the changes were installed in
> > > /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm?
> >
> > mrowe@mrowe:~$ tail /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm
> > Shift <Key>Left: string("\033\010") \n\
> > Shift <Key>Right: string("\033\025") \n\
> >
> > > If you are using an ~/.Xresources file
> > > or similar mechanism to override the settings in the
> > > /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm file, you'll need to copy those changes
> > > to your ~/.Xresources file as well.
> >
> > mrowe@mrowe:~$ ls -l .Xresources
> > ls: .Xresources: No such file or directory
> >
> > > Hope that helps...
> >
> > That bit didn't, but having another look at my XTerm file did - I just
> > dropped those two lines into the file at the end of the existing list[1].
> > The former last line didn't have a trailing \n\, so the new mappings were
> > being ignored. Once that was fixed your functions came to life :-) Sorry
> > about that
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > It works the same as in CA (or KMail) when going right, but places the
> > cursor at the end of the word when going left. As an example from the
> > signon screen
> >
> > Display . . . . . : QPADEV0006
> > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ # ^ = stop points for CA/KMail
> > r r r r r r r r # r = stop points for tn5250 moving
> > right l l l l l l l l # l = stop points for tn5250 moving
> > left
> >
> > In addition the other apps will move onto the [start of the next|end of
> > the previous] line and carry on from there, once they reach the
> > [start|end] of the line being processed. Having never used this
> > functionality until it got mentioned on the list, I can't say I'm
> > bothered either way, but it might be nice to emulate that too.
> >
> > One other, slightly related question. Is it possible to have a key
> > binding for start of the current line/field (as a matching function to
> > End), like Home does in pretty much any other app I've used. I know Home
> > has a special meaning in 5250 but would a Shift-Home (or something else)
> > be possible without breaking anything?
>
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