Re: Binding Home and End

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:58:43 +0200
> "Nadav Har'El" <nyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I wonder - shouldn't ZLE also switch to application mode and leave this
>> mode when editing is complete (to run a command)?
>
> I can't imagine changing the normal behaviour will lead to anything
> other than chaos, but there is a simple way of making the shell do this
> for you:
>
> zle-line-init() { echoti smkx; }  
> zle-line-finish() { echoti rmkx; }
> zle -N zle-line-init
> zle -N zle-line-finish
>
> which seemed to do what I expected.

Any reason why this would "lead to anything other than chaos"? I think
this is the correct way to do this. Without it, relying on information
from terminfo to bind keys cannot work too well.

Is there any potential part of the shell that could break if what the
above functions did were the default behaviour?

Regards, Frank

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