Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange keymappings in nano

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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I think this may be yet another problem caused by Gentoo's termcap stuff... 
Not sure if anyone is investigating the problem, but apparently it occurs 
when using SSH from a non-Gentoo system or from a GUI console. A workaround, 
at least for Konsole, is to 'export TERM=linux' for now.


On Tuesday 20 May 2003 03:24 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> If I'm editing a file that has long lines, using `nano -w`, the Home and
> End keys don't work as expected.
>
> ^a and ^e work OK as  Home and End respectively, but:
> End inserts "F" at the line start and Home inserts "H" at the line
> start.
>
> I've remerged nano and baselayout (for /etc/initrc) to no avail.  vim
> works perfectly.
>
> # emerge -s nano
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : nano ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> *  app-editors/nano
>       Latest version available: 1.2.1
>       Latest version installed: 1.2.1
>       Size of downloaded files: 889 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.nano-editor.org/
>       Description: GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality
> # emerge -s baselayout
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : baselayout ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> *  sys-apps/baselayout
>       Latest version available: 1.8.5.9
>       Latest version installed: 1.8.5.9
>       Size of downloaded files: 89 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.gentoo.org/
>       Description: Base layout for Gentoo Linux filesystem (incl.
> initscripts and sysvinit)
>
> Peter
>
>
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