Re: bind pgup key to scrollback

[Micah Cowan]

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Asif Iqbal wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>  - What is the output of the "infocmp" command
> 
>> #       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/lib/terminfo/x/xterm
>> xterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator,

<snip>

The output didn't include "kpp", which is the terminfo equivalent to
"kP". So screen has no way to know what sequence of characters
represents `pgup'.

There are a few ways to address this. One would be to use a more
up-to-date terminfo description for xterm; the one that ships with
recent versions of GNU ncurses has kpp, for instance.

Another method would be to save the "infocmp xterm" output to a file,
add appropriate definitions (... knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~ ...), and then run
the "tic" command on that file (as root if you want it to apply
system-wide).

Perhaps the easiest way to deal with it (for screen only), is to add the
following line to your ~/.screenrc or /etc/screenrc:

  termcapinfo xterm* kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~

- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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