Hi Thomas, the command line editing in Root resembles the emacs-style that's where C-a/C-e come from. Home/End in Emacs jump to the beginning/end of the buffer. As there is nothing equivalent to a buffer in Root Home and End could be bound to work as you expect. cheers Jiri Thomas Bretz <tbretz@astro.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes: > Hi Jiri, > > thanks... but I do not like to learn new keyboard short cuts for each > program. I think Ctrl-a/e maybe as commonly used as home/end. And > instead of producing garbage on the screen it would be nice if these > keays could do what (maybe) many people would expect these keays to > do. What do you think? > > Thomas. > > Jiri Masik wrote: >> Thomas Bretz <tbretz@astro.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes: >> >>>Hi Alexander, >>> >>>it sounds great I always thought, that the current way of editing is >>>somehow inconvinient. It seems that you had a look into Getline.c. Do >>>you think that it is possible to get also 'home' and 'end' working to >>>jump back to the beginning of a line? >> Hi Thomas, >> you can use C-a (and C-e) to get to the beginning (the end) of the >> line. >> cheers >> Jiri >>
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