Mrxvt

This is like aterm or your normal terminal on steroids. its tabbed its got transparency its the shizzzniiiitttttt

but the home and end keys dont work on default.. here’s what you might need to know

Q: How to use the Home/End key to move the cursor to the beginning/
	end of the current command line? When I press the Home/End key, a
	~ character is displayed.

	A: It depends on your shell setting. If you set the terminal type
	is set to `xterm' (mrxvt default since 0.4.0), put the following
	lines in ~/.cshrc (if your shell is tcsh) or ~/.zshrc (if your
	shell is zsh):

		bindkey "\e[1~" beginning-of-line
		bindkey "\e[4~" end-of-line

	Put the following lines into ~/.inputrc (if your shell is bash):

		"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
		"\e[4~": end-of-line

	If your terminal type is set to `rxvt', replace `1' with `7', and
	`4' with `8' in the above lines.

	Thanks to Jowex at users.sourceforge.net for contributing the
	answer.

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6 Responses

1. Stunner
   March 24th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

   OK! I know a bit of HTML scripting, but this doesn’t mean anything to me, lol.

2. Yatta
   March 24th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

   I guess because it’s not HTML…
   It took me awhile to figure out this one also.
   For about 3 months I’ve used mrxvt with out using a functional Home/End keys. I was toolazt to go searching for the answer and the answer was right there on the mrxvt FAQ page… Ohh well..

3. Taylor
   March 25th, 2007 at 1:20 am

   oh as i’ve recentnly learnt make sure your TERM environment variable is set to what it needs to be. mine is xterm tested with

   echo $TERM from the mrxvt terminal.. need to set it to term to apply the fix.

4. Adrian
   March 26th, 2007 at 3:12 am

   hmm.. too much fancy stuff, I just use xterm and the keys work as they should out of the box.

   I also tend to use ctrl+a and ctrl+e to jump from start to end, maybe that may work for unno too.

5. Taylor
   March 26th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

   hmm.. thanks.. should give that a test. but i prefer home and end.. its just so.. intuitive to press it.

   and multiple tabs duude you ccant beat that. trust me you cant. i just wish i had backed up my last config..

6. Yatta
   March 28th, 2007 at 2:14 am

   “ctrl+a and ctrl+e ” I use to use that BUT I got so used to using CTRL + A to copy all it got me in a trouble a few times so i try to stick with Home and End on my nix box.