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From: Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange keymappings in nano
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 16:34:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ECA9169.3080002@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305201641.31976.luke-jr@gentoo.org>


Actually, it's not related to Gentoo's weird termcap settings, it's a 
nano thing.  A Bug I think, however nano does have a command line switch 
for it.  use `nano -wK' to fix the keypad issues.  Or do what I do and 
alias "nano" and "pico" to "nano -wK".  Should solve your problems.

--Kumba



Luke-Jr wrote:

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-20 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-20 15:24 [gentoo-dev] Strange keymappings in nano Peter Ruskin
2003-05-20 15:30 ` Peter Ruskin
2003-05-20 17:53   ` foser
2003-05-20 16:41 ` Luke-Jr
2003-05-20 20:34   ` Kumba [this message]
2003-05-20 21:48     ` Peter Ruskin

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