Bug 97396 – Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys fail on app-shells/zsh 4.2.5

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2005-06-29 08:39:18 UTC]

By default zsh is missing /etc/zsh/zshrc, that contains configuration for    
certain keyboard settings. I'm including /etc/zsh/zshrc from Debian Sarge 3.1    
that fixes this issue by simple copying it there. I'm using 8859-15@euro,   
Finnish layout, and keymaps. This has been reproduced by.. several Finnish   
people and all confirmed this zshrc fixes it.   
  
Home, does not respond.  
End, does not respond.  
Page Up, produces tilde ~  
Page Down, produces tilde ~  
  
zshrc that fixes it at: http://hdr.unk.fi/~drac/zshrc from Debian. 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set keymaps and layouts to Finnish. 
2. Run zsh. 
3. Try keys home, end, page up and page down. 
 
Actual Results:  
Keys won't work? 

Expected Results:  
Keys work. 

Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 
2.6.12 i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.12 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.9 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7 
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -ffast-math 
-fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -ffast-math 
-fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" 
LANG="fi_FI@euro" 
LC_ALL="fi_FI@euro" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib alsa apm arts audiofile avi 
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl 
dvd dvdread emboss encode esd exif fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm 
gif gimpprint glibc gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 
jack java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libcaca libg++ libwww lm_sensors 
logitech-mouse mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn 
musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam 
pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc sdl sndfile speex 
spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts 
type1-fonts usb videos visualization vorbis win32codecs xine xinerama xml2 
xmms xscreensaver xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux 
elibc_glibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Bapt 2005-06-30 05:45:06 UTC]

I don't know what you want to do with Page Up et Page down, (Shift PageUP and
Shift PageDown works). For home,End and del : here it is...
perhaps it could be added to the default zshrc

General TEM=xterm:
bindkey "^[[H" beginning-of-line
bindkey "^[[F" end-of-line

For RVXT and other(wterm) TERM=lin :
bindkey "^[[1~" beginning-of-line
bindkey "^[[4~" end-of-line 

For everything (the del key):
bindkey "^[[3~" delete-char

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2005-06-30 07:45:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't know what you want to do with Page Up et Page down, (Shift PageUP and
> Shift PageDown works). For home,End and del : here it is...
> perhaps it could be added to the default zshrc

For example, in Konsole and scrolling with Page Up and Page Down only with those
addons you posted they produce tilde ~ and history-scrolling doesn't work.
So it's quite clear some bindings are needed, they are in Debian's zshrc but i'm
not so familiar with zsh I could point them out for you. It fixed Home and End
though. Thanks.

[Comment 3 Bapt 2005-06-30 10:36:55 UTC]

If you want to create your custom bindings : 
type : 
bindkeys 
it will show you available "fonctions" assigned to each key
To know all available functions, "info zsh", and select the menu :
up-line-or-history

type :
bindkeys '<Ctrl-V>-<YourKey>' your_function

I don't really like the debian way (not easy to know what they try to do)

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2006-03-05 07:13:04 UTC]

I don't see point keeping this open, can't be bothered to find out how Debian does 
that exactly.. and/or lack of skills to read zsh variables.