xterm Home/End keycodes

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Andy Koppe wrote:

> 2009/3/15 Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>:
>>> I'm a bit confused about those. They didn't change during the xorg
>>> transition, did they? I could have sworn they sent VT220-style ^[[1;
>>> and ^[[4; but actually they send PC-style ^[[H and ^[[F. Of course I
>>> should have realised this when I changed F1 to F4 to PC-style codes in
>>> MinTTY ...
>>
>> PC-style is the upstream default (I don't recall whether cygwin's
>> older package modified the app-defaults files).
>
> Thanks, I think my confusion actually stemmed from starting with PuTTY
> code, which sends VT220-style keys when set to Xterm mode.

I tend to ignore PuTTY's keyboard options, since they don't really
match xterm's options.

> I note that Debian uses PC-style too. Is this issue fairly settled
> then, i.e. do most systems use the PC-style keycodes for their "xterm"
> terminfo entries?

PC-style's the default since a long time ago when the keyboard tables were 
constructed for the PC keyboards.

I implemented the VT220-style editing-keypad as something that could 
change from that default, but (aside from one of the terminfo's several 
years ago using VT220), xterm's used the PC-style since I've been working 
on it in 1996.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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