Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sun Feb 12 17:10:57 UTC 2012


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.  

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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