[desktop-discuss] PageUp/PageDown not working in GNOME Terminal 2.18.0

[Garrett D'Amore]

Bob Doolittle wrote:
> The most commonly used text-mode application is ... gnome-terminal.
>
> So the strongest requirement for PgUp/PgDn is gnome-terminal,
> and it is most important that it work as expected there.
> vim can create its own window, and has other bindings for its
> foward-page and backward-page functions.
>
> There's a long history of terminal windows honoring PgUp/PgDn,
> and applications have been written to deal with them.
> Why does gnome-terminal need to create an exception?

I have another keybinding pet-peeve with gnome-terminal.... I am spoiled 
by xterm/dtterm having "kshMode", where I can use my meta-key to send an 
escape, ala Meta-F is translated to ESC-F.  For shells with emacs 
keybindings ( tcsh!) this is very, very handy.

I feel so strongly about this, that I refuse to use gnome-terminal and 
continue to use plain old xterm.

PgUp/PgDn is just one more annoyance.

    -- Garrett
>
> -Bob
>
> Darren Kenny wrote:
>> I totally disagree, the PgUp and PgDn keys are vital for any decent 
>> text mode
>> application to be able to handle such functions - e.g. vim when I use 
>> it in a
>> GNOME Terminal will correctly page up/down using these keys.
>>
>> If any thing, maybe it could be configurable, but it certainly 
>> shouldn't be the
>> default behaviour.
>>
>> Darren.
>>
>> Peter Tribble wrote:
>>  
>>> On 6/13/07, Mats Larsson <mats.larsson at ericsson.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On 2007-06-13 16:20, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Mats Larsson wrote:
>>>>>        
>>>>>> Only generates a '~' for me. Is there a simple solution to it?
>>>>>>           
>>>>>   Use  <Shift>+<PgUP>/<PgDn>
>>>>>         
>>>> Is it possible to remap in any way? Don't see any disadvantage to have
>>>> it accessible without the Shift moderator.
>>>>       
>>> Not currently. The need for shift here drives me completely up
>>> the wall.
>>>
>>> See:
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172766
>>>
>>> which might need another ping now that 2.18.0 has arrived.
>>>
>>>     
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