Re: Editing with mc

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Helmut Hullen wrote:

> Hallo, Keith,
>
> keith karsites net meinte am 29.08.10 in mc zum Thema Re: Editing with mc:
>
> > > > > > > > 1) I don't know a short cut key to get to the beginning or to
> > > > > > > > the end of a file I'm editing, what am I missing?
>
> > > > > > > CTRL-Home will move you to the top of the file you are editing.
> > > > > > > CTRL-End ditto end of file.
>
> > > > > > That's what I'm expecting, but the cursor moves only to the
> > > > > > beginning or the end of the line!
>
> [...]
>
> > >        echo $TERM
> > >
> > > tells "xterm" (running the machine via "putty").
> > >
> > > Maybe that's the reason. When I go to the real keyboard (and not via
> > > "putty") then "echo $TERM" tells "linux", and Ctrl-end works as
> > > described. With old and new versions of mc.
>
> > I use konsole terminal emulator part of KDE, under XFCE.
>
> [...]
>
> > Ctrl keys work OK on konsole.
>
> Under "putty" most (nearly all) ctrl keys work. Only "ctrl end" and
> "ctrl home" seem to resist.

I would expect the individual control keys to work.  However, control
as a modifier to function keys appears to have no effect with putty.


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