On Wed, October 13, 2010 6:20 pm, Ven Tadipatri wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Wed, October 13, 2010 5:26 pm, Christian Brabandt wrote: >>> BTW: You can bind those keys using the readline library. man readline >>> should give you enough info (I did it before, but can't show you an >>> example right now). >> >> e.g. put something like this in your .inputrc: >> "\e[1~": beginning-of-line >> "\e[4~": end-of-line > > I did have this in my inputrc. What's happening when I hit home and > end (The problem is on my windows box, when I'm using Cygwin...home > and end appear to work ok on my linux box), is that it goes forward a > character and changes the case of it. Sometimes I can see it go > forward 4 characters and change the case, which is what you would > expect in vi if you hit escape, and then did 1~ or 4~ > I tried taking these lines out of the inputrc and the behavior's the > same.
Please enter cat and press the keys and show the output on both terminals. As I said, this is terminal dependent and depends on the value of your $TERM environment variable. >> e.g. press Ctrl-V followed by your key this will most likely output >> something like ^[[4~ which translates to \e[4~ in readline terms. > > This is really strange, because what I want to specify is that in vi > mode, hitting the home and end keys should map to beginning and end of > line. Instead, it almost seems like when I hit the home and end keys, > it escapes, then does the vi command "1~". How odd. There are no > mappings for home and end in my vimrc. Yet the home and end keys work > fine as soon as I go into vim. The inputrc on my windows and linux > box is the same, so I'm really puzzled where this strange behavior is > coming from. It only happens in vi mode. In emacs mode the commands > work just fine > Ah well, maybe I'll just switch back to emacs mode. No, as I said, this is completely independent of vim. It's a bash behaviour and has nothing to do with vim. regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
