[SOLVED] Navigation in 'less' not working

czerwinski1977 · 10-23-2010, 05:50 AM

Hi there,

I am a kind of desperate - I just upgraded my ubuntu to 10.10 and discovered that the navigation keys in the 'less' utility are not working anymore. Both the cursor keys and the page keys are just echoed as key codes:

Code:

:^[[A^[[B^[[C^[[D^[[5~^[[6~

(I hit up, down, right, left, pgup, pgdown)

This is really nasty - moreover, this issue seems to be too difficult to google (at least for me) beause 'less' is not a very good keyword to search for

Thanks for all advices!

Reinhard.

PS: I already checked TERM=xterm -- must be something else...

neonsignal · 10-23-2010, 07:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by czerwinski1977

PS: I already checked TERM=xterm -- must be something else...

You could check that it is running the shell you expect too (SHELL=/bin/bash).

czerwinski1977 · 10-23-2010, 12:33 PM

The shell is /bin/bash ...

Any other ideas, please?

honeybadger · 10-23-2010, 02:13 PM

Hi,
If the arrow keys do not work does the enter key work? I had this issue with ubuntu earlier and I did not like it.
As far as my pc is concerned echo $TERM gives me linux.
Hope this helps.

czerwinski1977 · 10-25-2010, 03:39 PM

Miraculously, the problem has disappeared just as it appeared... still TERM=xterm, SHELL=/bin/bash ...

Thanks anyway for your replies!

honeybadger · 10-25-2010, 11:24 PM

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