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vincthedwarf
vincthedwarf

Reputation: 1

How to make shortcut beginning of line ( ctrl-a ) work in kali linux?

Distribution: SMP Debian 4.9.6-3kali2 (2017-01-30)

Shell: bash

Program: Terminal emulator

Problem:

Ctrl + a Go to the beginning of the line (Home) is doing a select all instead .

Ctrl + e Go to the End of the line (End) is working fine.

What I have tried:

stty - change and print terminal line settings

exemple: stty intr "your_new_shortcut"

$ stty -a

speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0;

intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = ;

eol2 = ; swtch = ; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt =^R;

werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;

-parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts

-ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff

-iuclc -ixany imaxbel -iutf8

opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt

echoctl echoke -flusho -extproc

Solution

The only solution that I found, at this moment is to use the Xfce terminal include in my distro.

The ctrl-a beginning of the line works fine.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 496

Answers (2)

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 2952

I know what you mean, the terminal has the ability to move to the first character and end of line, so why wouldn't the rest of the distro be able to?

I have found a half solution with the text editor named Atom, this is just for source code management. Perhaps if you're using a more advanced source code editor like RubyMine or any of the Jetbrains suites, they'll have a different way to configure them.

For Atom:

  1. Press the hotkey Ctrl-Comma
  2. Navigate to Keybindings
  3. Find the built in link called your keymap file at the beginning of the file.

Copy and paste this into there:'atom-text-editor':

'atom-text-editor':
  'ctrl-e': 'editor:move-to-end-of-screen-line'

'atom-workspace atom-text-editor':
  'ctrl-a': 'editor:move-to-first-character-of-line'
  'ctrl-shift-a': 'core:select-all'

these controls will be more similar to MacOS. Which I assume anyone asking this question will be making the switch over from there...

Upvotes: 0

vincthedwarf
vincthedwarf

Reputation: 1

The only solution that I found, at this moment is to use the Xfce terminal include in my distro.

The ctrl-a beginning of the line works fine.

Upvotes: 0

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