emacs+gnome-terminal+KDE+openSUSE

openSauce · 03-30-2009, 04:59 AM

I'm using openSUSE 10.3 with KDE and having a problem with Emacs in console mode (no X window).

If I use Konsole or gnome-terminal to run Emacs, ctrl+arrow keys don't work, instead they just cause the characters A,B,C,D to be printed. It's only the combination of these terminal emulators + emacs that causes the problem: the arrow keys work fine for emacs in gui mode, or for bash on the terminal emulators, or emacs in console mode in a tty obtained by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1. Can anyone suggest how to change this?

FNC · 04-02-2009, 04:52 AM

I had similar problem before.

I found that running this command before vi enables the arrow keys, but then it causes some other weird behavior in vi.

Code:

export TERM=linux

Hope someone can explain it.

FNC · 04-02-2009, 07:17 AM

Hi Sauce

I was able to solve this problem completely by installing vim-common. Hope this works for you to.

FNC

openSauce · 04-03-2009, 02:22 AM

Thanks for your replies, I'm switching between distros a fair bit at the moment and probably won't be using suse now for a few weeks, but I'll try these when I get the chance and report back if they don't work. Wouldn't have thought vim-common had anything to do with emacs though?

FNC · 04-03-2009, 04:31 AM

Ok I just realise you are right. You are having problems with emacs, my
problem was with vi.

Sorry I'm all confused. But perhaps you can find a similar package for emacs to resolve the problem.