Home key not working in terminal

command-line zsh keyboard-shortcuts gnome-terminal

Solution 1

Escape sequences sent by function and cursor keys consist of an escape character followed by printable characters. Press Ctrl+V then Home. This will insert the escape sequence literally. Then add a bindkey instruction to your ~/.zshrc.

The instruction is likely to be (note O, not 0):

bindkey '\e[OH' beginning-of-line
bindkey '\e[OF' end-of-line

Solution 2

I found I had to hit CTRL-v, let go, then the Home or End key to get the sequences ^[[H and ^[[F for Home and End respectively. Adding the following lines to the .zshrc file solved the problem for me:

bindkey '^[[H' beginning-of-line
bindkey '^[[F' end-of-line

Solution 3

I'm on fedora now yet I suggest you to read Archlinux's wiki carefully, all of it: Home and End keys not working.

What I did to fix it:

Press Ctrl-V Home, the escaped sequence for Home key is printed. It is not \e[4~ and \e[1~ as I expected to be by looking at /etc/inputrc. It was [H and [F
Extract the terminal info infocmp $TERM >terminfo.src
Open that file for editing, such as vim terminfo.src, look for khome and kend it's assigned to something, let's say khome=\E[1~ and kend=\E[4~ which is not working in this case. remove it and replace it with the sequence you found in step #1, so for me, after editing it was: khome=\E[H and kend=\E[F.
If you want to play it safe make sure [F and [H (or whatever sequence you just used) is not assigned to something else or things will be messed up!
run tic terminfo.src which creates ~/.terminfo directory.
On top of .zshrc before any and all other commands, put: export TERMINFO=~/.terminfo

Open a new terminal window and you should be fine, home and end must be working now.

P.S: The bindkey method should theoretically work and is easier, but it didn't for me.

Solution 4

Add these lines to /etc/zshrc and then do a source /etc/zshrc (taken from here)

bindkey '\e[1~'   beginning-of-line  # Linux console
bindkey '\e[H'    beginning-of-line  # xterm
bindkey '\eOH'    beginning-of-line  # gnome-terminal
bindkey '\e[2~'   overwrite-mode     # Linux console, xterm, gnome-terminal
bindkey '\e[3~'   delete-char        # Linux console, xterm, gnome-terminal
bindkey '\e[4~'   end-of-line        # Linux console
bindkey '\e[F'    end-of-line        # xterm
bindkey '\eOF'    end-of-line        # gnome-terminal

Solution 5

This answer explained my problem really good and fixed it.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/686458/5472892

TL;DR: Change your PuTTY terminal type from default xterm to linux.

Maybe someone can use it too.

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ASD

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

ASD over 1 year
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- bahamat over 12 years
  
  Do you have a .inputrc in your home directory? Does this happen with a freshly created user? Did this always happen, or did it start one day?
- Chris Perkins over 12 years
  
  No I don't have .inputrc. I don't permission to create new user. This was always like that. I'am living with ctrl +a and ctrl+e.
- bahamat over 12 years
  
  I guess in that case I won't suggest ctrl+a & ctrl+e ;-)
Wim over 14 years

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Tatu Ulmanen over 14 years

@Wim, you're absolutely right, my example wouldn't be very usable without them. I've edited my answer.
ASD over 14 years

Its Working. Thanks. Even the idea of giving alias to the resultfields is cool. Its great. Thanks for all your help in getting me done.
Chris Perkins over 12 years

nothing gets printed when I press Ctrl then Home. Nothing happens. Tried changing 0 to O as well.
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' almost 7 years

@balki It's Ctrl+V, not Ctrl. I just realized there was a formatting problem in my answer.
Chris Perkins almost 7 years

Thanks! :) I am now used to ctrl + a and ctrl +e and vi mode
Kasia Gauza about 4 years

Also tested in CentOS + bash - works! Thank you :)
Tyler Kelly over 3 years

+1: it was mentioned in the link, but i was unaware that if doing ctrl-v gave me ^[[H that you should replace the ^[ with \e to get \e[H
David Balažic about 3 years

So now it wont work in terminals that properly emulate xterm? Or does he have a broken terminfo?
stwr667 about 2 years

I had this problem but only in IRB ruby shells, not in ZSH shells. To fix, I added "\e[H":beginning-of-line and "\e[F":end-of-line lines to ~/.inputrc