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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Weird home key behavior Post 302297691 by wempy on Saturday 14th of March 2009 01:43:47 PM
Old 03-14-2009
echo $TERM may help.
you could always change your habits and use CTRL-a to go to the beginning of the line and CTRL-e to go to the end.
other standard readline keybindings you may not be aware of:
ALT-f go forward one word
ALT-b go backwards one word
CTRL-w delete previous word

These are, I believe, emacs keybindings. If you are more used to vi then issue set -o vi at the command prompt, then you can use vi like keybindings.

Getting into those habits is better, in my opinion, especially when dealing with lots of different OS's as you never need to worry about putty's default configuration, as The control and alt keys are nearly always bound correctly. (I say nearly always just to cover myself, personally I have never come across a system where they haven't been, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere :~)
 

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pork(1) 							   USER COMMANDS							   pork(1)

NAME
pork - An AOL Instant Messenger client for the UNIX console. VERSION
version 0.99.0 SYNOPSIS
pork [options] DESCRIPTION
Pork is a console based client for the AOL Instant Messenger service that uses the ncurses screen library. Pork is intended to be fast, useable, and stable. Pork was written by Ryan McCabe. OPTIONS
-H or --host <addr> Use the local address specified for outgoing connections -p or --port <port> Use the local port specified for the main connection -h or --help Display this help text -v or --version Display version information and exit USAGE
To log into AIM, type /connect <username>, where <username> is your AIM screen name. If you don't have an AIM screen name, you can get one at http://aim.aol.com. Pork now supports IRC. The syntax for connecting to an IRC server is /connect -irc <username> <server>[:<port>[:<password>]] [... <serverN>[:<port>[:<password>]]] When you're inside the client, type /help to find out what commands are supported. Type /help <command> to get help on a particular com- mand. Below are the default key bindings. All keys can have their bindings changed or removed completely. Enter the commands '/help bind' and '/help keys' for more information. KEY BINDINGS
Default main key bindings: CTRL+A Move the cursor to the start of the line. CTRL+B Move the cursor to the start of the previous word. CTRL+E Move the cursor to the end of the line. CTRL+F Move the cursor to the start of the next word. CTRL+H Backspace. META+BACKSPACE Delete the previous word on the input line. CTRL+K Close the current window. CTRL+L Refresh the display. CTRL+T Toggle timestamps on messages. CTRL+U Clear the input line. CTRL+X Switch to the next window in the window list. CTRL+Y Switch to the previous window in the window list. TAB Switch the input focus to the buddy list. META+/ Command auto-completion. META+<1-9> Switch to the window having the specified number. HOME Scroll to the top of the display. END Scroll to the bottom of the display. PAGE UP Scroll the display up one page. PAGE DOWN Scroll the display down one page. UP ARROW Scroll the input history list up. DOWN ARROW Scroll the input history list down. CTRL+META+X Bind the next account to the current window. Default buddy list key bindings: END Move the buddy list cursor to the bottom of the buddy list. HOME Move the buddy list cursor to the top of the buddy list. PAGE UP Move the buddy list cursor one page up. PAGE DOWN Move the buddy list cursor one page down. UP ARROW Move the buddy list cursor up. DOWN ARROW Move the buddy list cursor down. ENTER Collapse the group the cursor is on, or if the cursor is on a user, open a conversation window with that user (or go to the conversation window, if one already exists). TAB Switch to main input focus. CTRL+L Refresh the buddy list display. META+p Remove the user under the cursor from the permit list. META+P Add the user the cursor is on to the permit list. META+b Remove the user the cursor is on from the block list. META+B Add the user the cursor is on to the block list. META+w Warn the user the cursor is on. META+W Warn the user the cursor is on anonymously. a Get the away message of the user the cursor is on. i Get the profile and away message of the user the cursor is on. CTRL+X Switch to the next window in the window list. CTRL+Y Switch to the previous window in the window list. FILES
~/.pork/porkrc - The pork configuration file ~/.pork/screenname.blist - The buddy list for "screenname" BUGS
ryan@numb.org - Please report bugs to this address HOMEPAGE
http://dev.ojnk.org AUTHORS
Pork was written by Ryan McCabe <ryan@numb.org>. This manpage was written by Benjamin Seidenberg <astronut@dlgeek.net>. Pork AIM Client July, 2005 pork(1)
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