Additional cursor movement keys (was Re: TN5250 0.16.2 released!) -- LINUX5250

Okay, I've implemented your suggestions:

   -- Shift-Left will now go to the start of a word, instead of the end.
   -- Shift-Right & Shift-Left will now wrap lines
   -- Shift-Home has been added to go to the first position of the current
         field.

These are in CVS for the 0.17.x branch.   Once they've had a bit more
exposure, I'll merge them into the 0.16.x branch as well...

Please let me know what you think of the way they work, now...


On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Martin Rowe wrote:

> Hi Scott
> > Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] Re: TN5250 0.16.2 released!
> > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:57:32 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com>
> > To: <linux5250@midrange.com>
>
> <snipped>
> > It shouldn't be sending '[2C' or '[2D' the changes to the XTerm file
> > should be causing it to send ESC Ctrl-H (left) and ESC Ctrl-U (right)
> > (that is, \033\010 and \033\025, respectively)
> >
> > Are you sure that the changes were installed in
> > /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm?
>
> mrowe@mrowe:~$ tail /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm
>         Shift <Key>Left: string("\033\010") \n\
>         Shift <Key>Right: string("\033\025") \n\
>
> > If you are using an ~/.Xresources file
> > or similar mechanism to override the settings in the
> > /usr/local/share/tn5250/XTerm file, you'll need to copy those changes to
> > your ~/.Xresources file as well.
>
> mrowe@mrowe:~$ ls -l .Xresources
> ls: .Xresources: No such file or directory
>
> > Hope that helps...
>
> That bit didn't, but having another look at my XTerm file did - I just
> dropped those two lines into the file at the end of the existing list[1]. The
> former last line didn't have a trailing \n\, so the new mappings were being
> ignored. Once that was fixed your functions came to life :-) Sorry about that
> :-(
>
> It works the same as in CA (or KMail) when going right, but places the cursor
> at the end of the word when going left. As an example from the signon screen
>
> Display . . . . . :   QPADEV0006
> ^       ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   ^           # ^ = stop points for CA/KMail
> r       r r r r r r   r           # r = stop points for tn5250 moving right
>       l l l l l l l   l           # l = stop points for tn5250 moving left
>
> In addition the other apps will move onto the [start of the next|end of the
> previous] line and carry on from there, once they reach the [start|end] of
> the line being processed. Having never used this functionality until it got
> mentioned on the list, I can't say I'm bothered either way, but it might be
> nice to emulate that too.
>
> One other, slightly related question. Is it possible to have a key binding
> for start of the current line/field (as a matching function to End), like
> Home does in pretty much any other app I've used. I know Home has a special
> meaning in 5250 but would a Shift-Home (or something else) be possible
> without breaking anything?
>