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Having trouble with what my keyboard does when logged in as myself - let
me explain :
System is RH9, shell is bash-2.05b-20.1 (from rpm).  From the default
install, the arrow keys up/down through command history, left/right
mover the cursor along the commandline, and the home/end keys moved the
cursor to front/end of current command.
Few weeks ago I played around with some bashrc's to tweak my shell (as
you do).  Somewhere along the line, I now can't use the home/end to go
to front/end of commandline.  The arrow keys still work as before.
My .bashrc, .bash_profile are back to what they were before I started
frigging around with them, but still no luck.
If I log in as some other user, or root, the home/end keys work as I
want them to.
If I use 'screen' as myself, they also work fine.  It is only when in
bash itself.
Any help appreciated.
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Quote:> Having trouble with what my keyboard does when logged in as myself - let
> me explain :
> System is RH9, shell is bash-2.05b-20.1 (from rpm).  From the default
> install, the arrow keys up/down through command history, left/right
> mover the cursor along the commandline, and the home/end keys moved the
> cursor to front/end of current command.
> Few weeks ago I played around with some bashrc's to tweak my shell (as
> you do).  Somewhere along the line, I now can't use the home/end to go
> to front/end of commandline.  The arrow keys still work as before.

     Create a $HOME/.inputrc file, if you don't already have one.

     Find the key sequence generated by your home and end keys (press
     ^V and the key), and put them in .inputrc. For example, rxvt
     gives me "^[[7~" for the home key. '^[' is escape and is entered
     as '\e'.

     These are the entries I have to cover various terminal programs:

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\eOH": beginning-of-line
"\e[7~": beginning-of-line

"\e[8~": end-of-line
"\eOF": end-of-line
"\e[F": end-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line

Quote:> My .bashrc, .bash_profile are back to what they were before I started
> frigging around with them, but still no luck.
> If I log in as some other user, or root, the home/end keys work as I
> want them to.
> If I use 'screen' as myself, they also work fine.  It is only when in
> bash itself.
> Any help appreciated.

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    Chris F.A. Johnson                  http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell
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    My code (if any) in this post is copyright 2004, Chris F.A. Johnson
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Quote:>      Create a $HOME/.inputrc file, if you don't already have one.

I am a tool.  That was *exactly* the problem.  Default new user on my
system does not get a ~/.inputrc.  When I was playing with setup I must
have used someone else's .inputrc and that is where the problem was.  I
didn't even think of that because I am a bit of a novice.  All good now,
and thankyou for the lightning-fast response!

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Just thinking about this - how come the keys worked in screen?  Wouldn't
screen have used the same .inputrc file? (don't mean to get OT ;-) )
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Does ^A and ^E work? (Ctrl-a;Ctrl-e)

AC

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Quote:> Does ^A and ^E work? (Ctrl-a;Ctrl-e)

> AC

G'day Alan.  Yes, that does work, but for me home and end are more
intuitive and a reflex for my fingers.  It was all in the .inputrc as
Chris had mentioned.
Thanks.
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