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Re: bind pgup key to scrollback
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Asif Iqbal |
Subject: |
Re: bind pgup key to scrollback |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:38:18 -0500 |
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Asif Iqbal wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> - What is the output of the "infocmp" command
>>
>>> # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/lib/terminfo/x/xterm
>>> xterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator,
>
> <snip>
>
> The output didn't include "kpp", which is the terminfo equivalent to
> "kP". So screen has no way to know what sequence of characters
> represents `pgup'.
>
> There are a few ways to address this. One would be to use a more
> up-to-date terminfo description for xterm; the one that ships with
> recent versions of GNU ncurses has kpp, for instance.
>
> Another method would be to save the "infocmp xterm" output to a file,
> add appropriate definitions (... knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~ ...), and then run
> the "tic" command on that file (as root if you want it to apply
> system-wide).
>
> Perhaps the easiest way to deal with it (for screen only), is to add the
> following line to your ~/.screenrc or /etc/screenrc:
>
> termcapinfo xterm* kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~
I have a line like this
termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@
If I add the other termcapinfo entry that should not overwrite the
other, will it?
I went ahead and add the new entry anyway, and now pgup scrollback. Thanks a lot
>
> - --
> Micah J. Cowan
> Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
> Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
> http://micah.cowan.name/
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Asif Iqbal
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?