Home/End keys do not work in shell

[hauser]

Home and End keys are very useful in shell

[jackburton]

Looks like TermView forwards those key to bash, so it's bash which doesnt' handle them. A very quick search on the internet resulted in this:

in /etc/inputrc: # allow the use of the Home/End keys # "\e[1~": beginning-of-line # "\e[4~": end-of-line Uncomment the two lines and all is well.

[bonefish]

That's also in my .inputrc under BeOS. Together with:

DEL: delete-char
Control-f kill-word

I suppose we should just add an inputrc to the image. Unless someone has a better idea, of course.

[axeld]

Well, I think the preferred solution would be to have those in the defaults; preferrably hard-coded, but a settings file would do, too.

[axeld]

Stefano, would you mind if I look into it?

[axeld]

I've attached a diff that would fix it within bash. Should I apply it?

[axeld]

Fix for the bash defaults

[jackburton]

Replying to axeld:

Stefano, would you mind if I look into it?

Please do. But IMHO it would be better if we didn't touch bash code, and just put add an inputrc file to the image.

[axeld]

Fixed in hrev22488. Having an inputrc file would benefit other apps, too, but good defaults make even more sense to me (I wouldn't mind having both, though).