Keyboard problems

[Vlad]

Hello everyone,

I seem to have misconfigured my keyboard. At the console, my End key produces a tilde (`/~) instead of going to the end of the line. When I SSH into the same box, BOTH the home AND the end keys produce tildes. I checked rc.conf and everything looks fine there. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be the cause of my dilemna? Thank you for any help you may provide!

Vlad

[Amorphis]

I have the same problem but only with 'aterm' and only with the end key.

[war]

I've got a similar problem in aterm.

When using vi in an aterm, home and end both lock the program from a second, then I get a beep, and the character under the cursor changes case....

Every other key on my keyboard works. What's different about home and end?

[rac]

Do any of the threads that come up with a forum search for "home and end and keys" help?
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[Valen]

It should be possible to fix the HOME END behaviour by changing their keybindings, I have a link for this somewhere but maybe someone will post something before I find it.

However, you could (and probably should) use the standard keys for doing this. By default the console uses emacs key bindings which means the default keys are:
CTRL-A beginning of line
CTRL-E end of line
CTRL-D delete char
(there are others as well)

VI (in command mode):
0 beginning of line
$ end of line

It's kind of hard to break the habit of using home and end from insert mode in vi but this should at least give you something better than arrow keys until you get the keybindings worked out.

[tactless]

It seems that xterm responds correctly to the END key... and Eterm doesn't. (Console keys work correctly as well)
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