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doesn't seem to work for me. i just get a beep and ~ left on the screen. any hints?

I have a new macbook (jan2009) and could not find the place to insert escape sequences in the preferences/keyboard options...

I use space to page down, the mac two key page up and down scrolls the window, not the terminal text

This worked for me, but was already set up on my 10.5 installation. It was already set up for Shift-page up/page down.

Try this in the Terminal -> Preferences -> Keyboard widget:

CTRL-A -- this is to go to the beginning of a line in Bash (set this to the 'Home' key)
CTRL-E -- this is to go to the end of the line in Bash (set this to the 'End' key)

The first combo will produce: \005
The second combo will produce: \001

Don't worry, it works in 10.5.x. This also works in the C Shell ('csh'), so if you are used to using it this will work there as well.

Works perfectly, thanks a lot!

Great! Works perfect for me!

Wow ....this worked for me too on Mac OSX 10.5.9

Alternatively, if this has problems, or is bash specific (doesn't work in tcsh) you can try this alternative solution:

Terminal->Preferences->[Settings]->[Keyboard]:

Find end, home, pg up, and pg down (the list is alphabetically sorted).

First double click 'end' and a prompt comes up that lets you remap the key, for 'Action' select 'send string to shell:' and then click on the entry field.

Press 'Esc' which emits '\033' then type '[4~' after it, so the text field should now show: "\033[4~". Click 'OK'.

Now you should be able to remap the other keys if you know the key codes, by pressing 'Esc' to emit \033. The codes for each of the keys are:

end \033[4~
home \033[1~
page down \033[6~
page up \033[5~

You will want to add 'Shift-pgdwn/pgup' to ask the buffer to scroll up and down. Do this by clicking '+' and adding 'pg down' with the 'Shift' modifier and then select 'scroll to next page in buffer', and do the opposite for pg up.

I believe this is the optimal fix.

Thanks a bunch these are indeed the optimal settings!

I've found that the home and end keys don't work with bash, but they work with mc (through ssh). To fix them for bash, I used this inputrc fix: http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2005/10/13/super-useful-inputrc/

Cheers!

I tried doing this but it didn't work (OSX 10.5.8). Instead of going to the end of the line, I get a "BEEP" and a tilde (~) appears in the term window.

Would love to get this working if anyone knows off the top of their head what I'm doing wrong.

You're my hero! Not having these keys work as I'm used to in a terminal window was driving me crazy.

Thanks for the heads-up on this!

Try
Key Escape Sequence
Home \033OH
End \033OF

The O's are captital as in OOPs, they are not zero's. This is straight from termcap for xterm and works for both the bash shell and vi/vim