Thanks Hugo, looks like I've hit the ceiling... :))) So I'll just keep Del and go Crtl for the rest. Thanks anyway. Ciao Paolo
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Hugo Villeneuve <harpa...@jwales.eintr.net > wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:22:09PM +0100, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > > Actually I've been carefully through ksh man, and if I try to use > prefix-2 > > more than once it just applies to the last entry, e.g.: > > > > bind '^[[3'=prefix-2 > > bind '^[[3~'=delete-char-forward > > > > and here Del works OK, but if I add: > > > > bind '^[[7'=prefix-2 > > bind '^[[7~'=beginning-of-line > > > > then Home works but Del does not anymore, and this does not even consider > > End; as well, trying with: > > > > bind '^[['=prefix-2 > > bind '^[[3~'=delete-char-forward > > bind '^[[7~'=beginning-of-line > > bind '^[[8~'=end-of-line > > > > yields a flawlessly working Del, plus a working Home and End which, each > > time pressed, add a nasty tilde at cursor. > > If you want to use a 4 characters keyboard key as a shell shortcut, > you will need to use a different shell than OpenBSD's ksh. > > Like GNU's bash. > > As you found out, ksh can only use key sequence in the form of > prefix + (1 letter). You get no error defining prefix + (2 letters) > but the 2nd character is ignored. > > Also, as you tested, you can define as many prefix-2 sequence as > you want, they all end up as synomym of each other though. > > Like up arrow is defined by default as: > > ^XA = up-history > > but the actual key sequence is ^[[A for the keyboard up arrow. It > works because both ^X and ^[[ are defined as prefix-2. > > > Basicaly in your first exemple, you defined ( prefix-2 + ~ ). Houray > for tilde, but that doesn't allow you to differentiate between all > the key codes ending with ~. > > > > All this testing was made in CLI only
