Subject: Re: Problems with virtual terminals
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Staffan Thomen <duck@multi.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/04/2003 18:23:18
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:54:34 +0200 (CEST) Gabor Nyeki
<bigmac@home.sirklabs.hu> wrote:
> Hello.
>=20
> I am using NetBSD/i386 1.6.1. As virtual terminals doesn't support
> HOME, END, etc. keys, I use ^A and ^E for line-editing in shell. It
> works fine.
> Well, it worked. I don't know why, but lately sh, ksh and zsh don't
> handle ^A and ^E. And as I don't remember any big change of the
> system I really don't know what to do.
> What could cause it? What could I do?
The ^A and ^E style line editing is called "emacs" alike, because the
bindings are the same as in emacs. Set your shell to enable this and
you should be fine.
Can't tell you if default behaivour has changed or any such.
Regards,
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