Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> writes:

> On 09/02/2015 12:21 PM, Greg Reagle wrote:
>> I've been reading this conversation with interest.  I tried different shells 
>> with xterm versus st.
>> 
>> On 09/02/2015 11:29 AM, Fabian Homborg wrote:
>>> If you launch fish in { konsole, xterm, gnome-terminal, linux in-kernel
>>> VTs, iTerm2, ... } your keys work, without smkx.
>>>
>>> If you launch fish in st, your keys don't, until you do "tput smkx".
>> 
>> I confirm that this is true on my computer:  for the shells fish, bash, ksh, 
>> and mksh, in xterm, the Delete key works; whereas in st it doesn't work 
>> without tput smkx.
>> 
>> However, with zsh in st, the Delete key works immediately.
>
> Sorry, correction.  I mis-reported on ksh.  Here are my results:
>
> Delete key
> |      | xterm | xterm | st    | st    |
> |      | rmkx  | smkx  | rmkx  | smkx  |
> |------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
> | zsh  | works | works | works | works |
> |------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
> | bash | works | works | no-op | works |
> | mksh | works | works | no-op | works |
> | tcsh | works | works | no-op | works |
> |------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
> | fish | works | works | '[P'  | works |
> | ksh  | '~'   | '~'   | '~'   | '~'   |
>
>
> The anomaly of '[P' with fish might be fixed in a later version.  I am 
> running fish, version 2.1.2-1256-g64af63b.

That's why we are discussing this.

zsh doesn't work for me either, and they have an entry in their FAQ that
mentions adding configuration

From the zsh 5.1 FAQ:

> It should be noted that the `O' / `[' confusion can occur
> with other keys such as Home and End.  Some systems let you query
> the key sequences sent by these keys from the system's terminal
> database, terminfo.  Unfortunately, the key sequences given there
> typically apply to the mode that is not the one zsh uses by default (it's
> the "application" mode rather than the "raw" mode).  Explaining the use
> of terminfo is outside the scope of this FAQ, but if you wish to use the
> key sequences given there you can tell the line editor to turn on
> "application" mode when it starts and turn it off when it stops:
> 
>  function zle-line-init () { echoti smkx }
>  function zle-line-finish () { echoti rmkx }
>  zle -N zle-line-init
>  zle -N zle-line-finish

Are you sure your distribution doesn't already add that?

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