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Old 11-19-2004, 12:18 AM   #1
ninmonkeys
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term (rxvt) creates ~ when pressing home/end


How do I allow rxvt to let me use the buttons Home and End? If I press either of them, a tilde "~" is inserted at the cursor.

The strange thing is, Home and End work fine on an xterm...
 
Old 11-20-2004, 07:45 PM   #2
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set environment variable "TERM" to rxvt
 
Old 11-20-2004, 08:54 PM   #3
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If I run rvxt, set the variable, it doesn't appear to do anything.

If it requires it to be set before the term is run, will this then break xterm? Will I have to write a special case in my ~/.bashrc?
 
Old 11-22-2004, 02:21 PM   #4
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rxvt -tn rxvt
 
Old 11-22-2004, 03:37 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally posted by terminator
rxvt -tn rxvt
Home and End still insert tilde characters instead of moving.
Code:
$ rxvt -tn rxvt &
Now on the rxvt term
Code:
$ echo $TERM
rxvt
on rxvt -tn rxvt after pressing home, end
Code:
$ echo $TERM~~
 
  


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