mintty & less

[Lee D. Rothstein]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> Lee D. Rothstein:
>   
>> I'm having some problems with 'less' in a 'mintty' window that are not
>> consistent. Specifically while paging through stdin (to 'less'), in
>> 'less', the first time I try to use <HOME> or <END> to go respectively
>> to the beginning or end of the stdin stream, the 'less' navigation
>> hangs until I hit <CTRL>-c. Then they each work.
>>     
>
> Hmm, less could be getting confused by the VT220-style Home/End
> keycodes that mintty sent so far. 0.3.7 sends "PC-style" keycodes that
> are compatible with the xterm terminfo entry.
>
> To get them working in less, add these two lines to ~/.lesskey (and
> run lesskey to translate it into the binary ~/.less):
>
>   \eOH goto-line
>   \eOF goto-end
>
> Andy
>
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>   
Thanks, Andy, this worked. Now, I'll go install 0.3.7, and see what 
happens. ;-)

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