<<< Date Index >>>     <<< Thread Index >>>

Re: Home and End key weirdness



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.

Attachment: pgpJZgCNz9cfa.pgp
Description: PGP signature