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From: Kumba <kumba@g.o>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange keymappings in nano
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:32:53
Message-Id: 3ECA9169.3080002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange keymappings in nano by Luke-Jr
1 Actually, it's not related to Gentoo's weird termcap settings, it's a
2 nano thing. A Bug I think, however nano does have a command line switch
3 for it. use `nano -wK' to fix the keypad issues. Or do what I do and
4 alias "nano" and "pico" to "nano -wK". Should solve your problems.
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10 Luke-Jr wrote:
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15 > I think this may be yet another problem caused by Gentoo's termcap stuff...
16 > Not sure if anyone is investigating the problem, but apparently it occurs
17 > when using SSH from a non-Gentoo system or from a GUI console. A workaround,
18 > at least for Konsole, is to 'export TERM=linux' for now.
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21 > On Tuesday 20 May 2003 03:24 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
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23 >>If I'm editing a file that has long lines, using `nano -w`, the Home and
24 >>End keys don't work as expected.
25 >>
26 >>^a and ^e work OK as Home and End respectively, but:
27 >>End inserts "F" at the line start and Home inserts "H" at the line
28 >>start.
29 >>
30 >>I've remerged nano and baselayout (for /etc/initrc) to no avail. vim
31 >>works perfectly.
32 >>
33 >># emerge -s nano
34 >>Searching...
35 >>[ Results for search key : nano ]
36 >>[ Applications found : 1 ]
37 >>
38 >>* app-editors/nano
39 >> Latest version available: 1.2.1
40 >> Latest version installed: 1.2.1
41 >> Size of downloaded files: 889 kB
42 >> Homepage: http://www.nano-editor.org/
43 >> Description: GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality
44 >># emerge -s baselayout
45 >>Searching...
46 >>[ Results for search key : baselayout ]
47 >>[ Applications found : 1 ]
48 >>
49 >>* sys-apps/baselayout
50 >> Latest version available: 1.8.5.9
51 >> Latest version installed: 1.8.5.9
52 >> Size of downloaded files: 89 kB
53 >> Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/
54 >> Description: Base layout for Gentoo Linux filesystem (incl.
55 >>initscripts and sysvinit)
56 >>
57 >>Peter
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange keymappings in nano Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@×××××××××.com>