Re: bind pgup key to scrollback

[Asif Iqbal]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
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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,
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> <snip>
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> 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~

I have a line like this

termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@

If I add the other termcapinfo entry that should not overwrite the
other, will it?

I went ahead and add the new entry anyway, and now pgup scrollback. Thanks a lot

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> Micah J. Cowan
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> Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
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