From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18338 invoked from network); 10 Jul 1997 08:00:25 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Jul 1997 08:00:25 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA19021; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 03:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 03:44:20 -0400 (EDT) From: marcok@tchibm3.chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de (Marco Kattannek) Message-Id: <9707100748.AA05098@tchibm3.chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de> Subject: Re: backward-word with hpterm? <- Marco In-Reply-To: <970709093522.ZM11927@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Jul 9, 97 09:35:22 am" To: schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:49:20 +0200 (CES) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (zsh) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"UwmKA2.0.Ue4.KB9np"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/944 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu According to Bart Schaefer: > On Jul 9, 1:44pm, Marco Kattannek wrote: > } Subject: re: backward-word with hpterm? > } > } Marco Kattannek typed: > } :I can not use the curser-keys for zsh-line-editing in a hpterm. ^B and > } :^F do work, but the curser-keys confuse everything. Is this a limitation > } :( feature ? ) of the hpterm. Can I change the zsh-behaviour? > } :Or do I have to change the stty's? > } :I suppose that I can do nothing about it, except not using hpterms. > } :Therefor I stoped searching for a solution, and ask this cuestion in this > } :list. > } > } Marco> What I see is -> > } Marco> cp this-is-a-file this-is-going-to- -a-file > } Marco> When I execute the command, and look at it with the command-history > } Marco> I see this -> > } Marco> cp this-is-a-file this-is-going-to-be-a-fi > > If I'm remembering right -- and the above example seems to bear it out -- > hpterm cursor keys don't actually send anything to the tty driver. They > just move the cursor around. Programs that are written specifically to > use hpterms track the cursor by coordinates as if it were a mouse pointer, > not a text cursor; programs that are written for generic tty drivers are > out of luck. > > There *is* a way to get the cursor keys to drive the tty, through some HP > extensions to the curses and termcap libraries, but I've long forgotten > what the magic is. > Hallo to all zsh-user, thanks to everybody helping me. I supposed the hpterm to act that way. Now I know it, and can stop searching for an zsh-option. As I said in my first e-mail, this seems to be a limitation, feature? of the hpterm. Greetings Marco