Re[3]: [Nottingham] xterm key problems

James Gibbon nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Jul 31 23:14:00 2003


Ross Kirk wrote:
> Hello peter,
> 
> Thursday, July 31, 2003, 1:46:11 PM, you wrote:
> 
> pcnau> Does ctrl-p (prev) and ctrl-n (next) work?
> 
> for emacs mode only yes.
> 
> pcnau> What OS are you logging on to?
> 
> local OS is WinXP and linux box is Mandrake 9.1


Years ago I seem to remember a similar problem with Exceed, I 
think I fixed it, or got round it at least by doing 

export TERM=vt220

.. a kludge, but it got my cursor keys working.  Of course you
may be experiencing a different problem.