On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:38:11PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:08:55AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:03:08PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > > > I've been using Putty (from work) and SSH (from home to connect to my > > > ISP shell account for reading mail for about a year now. All was fine. > > > About 2 weeks ago, the ISP suffered a major hardware meltdown, and ended > > > up not only replacing the "shell" server, but also upgrading it from RH9 > > > to Fedora Core 3. Ever since that time my Home and End keys have not > > > functioned properly in Mutt using Putty. > > > > > > :exec what-key shows the following after pressing Home or End: > > > Char = ~, Octal = 176, Decimal = 126 > > > > Does setting TERM to putty help? > > > > w > > > No - but thanks. > > Right now, and what has worked, is that putty sends itself as xterm, and > this is what the server also sees and sets TERM=xterm. > > Some further info, in case it's meaningful. > # which mutt > alias mutt='$HOME/usr/local/bin/mutt' > > This is because my provider will not upgrade from Mutt 1.4.1i. > Also, while composing this email with vi, I've noticed that both the > Home and End keys toggle the case of the character under the cursor. > > This is with Putty 0.58, if that helps. > > John OK, so here's a little more info. I decided to fire up a screen session and run the mutt. All keys work fine (except I can't leave screen running for reasons explained earlier). John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer.
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