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Date:      Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:16:05 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh
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On 12 Feb 2012 17:11, "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> > Joel, with all due respect, do you really think that 99.9% of all
> > users will not find the _non_intrusive_ additions below useful?
> >
> > bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line #make Home key work;
> > bindkey "\e[2~" overwrite-mode #make Ins key work;
> > bindkey "\e[3~" delete-char #make Delete key work;
> > bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line #make End key work;
>
> Yes, I do not find the additions mentioned right here useful.
>
> Much of the time, I'm using a laptop which does not have dedicated
Home/INS/Delete/End keys.  And even when I am using a full 10x-key
keyboard, I would not use them since I prefer using editmode=emacs and
Cntl-A / E.

So do I, but would these hurt you?

I think it's insane that by default the standard keys don't work.

Chris



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