Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

Gonzalo Nemmi gnemmi at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 20:28:45 UTC 2012


On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12 Feb 2012 17:11, "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger at 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

That´s exactly my point!
I use vim mode, yet, those keys do exist and they don´t work by default!
Even if you don´t use them those keys should be fully functional by default.


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