[illumos-Developer] Terminfo handling of pg/home/etc keys

[Joerg Schilling]

Miika Vesti <miika+illumos at vesti.fi> wrote:

> 19.10.2010 20:54, Guido Berhoerster kirjoitti:
> > * Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> [2010-10-19 18:48]:
> >> Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to take up integrating
> >>> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5574
> >>>
> >>> With the patch
> >>> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/attachment.cgi?id=1258&action=edit
> >>
> >> What keys do you understand by khome and kend?
> >>
> >> If you are talking about the keys labelled "pos1" and "end" above the cursor 
> >> keys from a PC keyboard, they create \EOH and \EOF if I call gnome terminal
> >> or xterm on my machine.
> > 
> > You'll only find "Pos1" on German keyboards, it's "Home" on my
> > 101 US PC keykboard.
> > They also generate \E[H and \E[F in my xterm, verified via
> > ksh93 -c 'set -o gmacs;function sc { printf "|%q|\n" "${.sh.edchar}";.sh.edchar=;};trap sc KEYBD;read -r c'
> > 
>
> On my keyboard, output of this command after pressing Home and End keys
> is \EOF and \EOH

I cannot speak for ksh93 and I don't know what this program does.....

It seems however that ksh93 uses the terminal emulator in a different mode than 
vi. Which mode the tty operates in depends on the init string that is part of 
the temcap or terminfo descriptor. The tests however show that the keys 
labelled "Home" and "End" by xev produce \EOH and \EOF in vi.




Jörg

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