[Karmic] JED Home and End keys no longer work in CUA mode

[Roland Hughes]

Binary package hint: jed

The CUA script says it is mapping Home and End keys to work appropriately, but they just don't work in Karmic Koala

roland@logikaldesktop:~$ uname -r
2.6.31-11-generic

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 15:09:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: slamr
Package: jed 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-13
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: jed
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek)]

I have tracked the problem back to one of the many device changes made with Karmic.

The default .jedrc file has the following lines in it:

#ifdef IBMPC_SYSTEM
  LINENUMBERS = 2; % A value of zero means do NOT display line number on
#else % status line line. A value of 1, means to display
  LINENUMBERS = 1; % the linenumber. A value greater than 1 will also
#endif % display column number information. I recommend a
   % value of 2 only at high baud rates

When you run Jed under Karmic, you don't see the column numbers on the status line. That is because IBMPC_SYSTEM is not getting defined correctly during startup. All of the terminfo stuff doesn't appear to work. If IBMPC_SYSTEM was correctly defined, all of the keys would probably be correctly defined.