Add support for standard keyboard navigation

[82MHz]

It would be great if the standard keyboard navigation from most text editors as well as the console would work in the text input window, meaning using the home + end keys to move to the start/end of a line and using ctrl+arrow keys to quickly skip forward/backward through the text one word at a time.
For reference, I'm on nchat v3.93 on Arch Linux.

[fulalas]

It's a matter of setting it correctly. The defaults are not intuitive, I agree.

Edit your key.conf and change these bindings (make sure these key combinations are not set anywhere else):

begin_line=KEY_HOME
end_line=KEY_END

backward_word=\33\133\61\73\65\104
forward_word=\33\133\61\73\65\103

[Disonantemus]

begin_line=KEY_HOME
end_line=KEY_END

Those didn't work 4 me.

$ nchat -v | head -1
nchat v4.13

$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     es
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

$ neofetch distro kernel
distro: Arch Linux x86_64
kernel: 6.1.52-1-lts

[fulalas]

In this case you need to post here your whole key.conf.

[d99kris]

Yes, please share the whole key.conf file @Disonantemus - as other key bindings can interfere with what you're trying to set.

[Disonantemus]

This is my key.conf right now:

backspace=KEY_BACKSPACE
backspace_alt=KEY_ALT_BACKSPACE
backward_kill_word=\033\177
backward_word=\33\133\61\73\65\104
begin_line=\4001046
cancel=KEY_CTRLC
clear=KEY_CTRLC
copy=\33\143
cut=\33\170
decrease_list_width=\33\54
delete=KEY_DC
delete_chat=\33\144
delete_line_after_cursor=KEY_CTRLK
delete_line_before_cursor=KEY_CTRLU
delete_msg=KEY_CTRLD
down=KEY_DOWN
edit_msg=KEY_CTRLZ
end=\4001024
end_line=\4001065
ext_call=\33\164
ext_edit=\33\145
forward_word=\33\133\61\73\65\103
home=\4001075
increase_list_width=\33\56
kill_word=\1006
left=KEY_LEFT
next_chat=KEY_TAB
next_page=KEY_NPAGE
open=KEY_CTRLV
open_link=KEY_CTRLW
open_msg=\33\167
other_commands_help=KEY_CTRLO
paste=\33\166
prev_chat=KEY_BTAB
prev_page=KEY_PPAGE
quit=KEY_CTRLQ
return=KEY_RETURN
right=KEY_RIGHT
save=KEY_CTRLR
select_contact=KEY_CTRLN
select_emoji=KEY_CTRLS
send_msg=KEY_CTRLX
spell=\33\163
terminal_focus_in=KEY_FOCUS_IN
terminal_focus_out=KEY_FOCUS_OUT
terminal_resize=KEY_RESIZE
toggle_emoji=KEY_CTRLY
toggle_help=KEY_CTRLG
toggle_list=KEY_CTRLL
toggle_top=KEY_CTRLP
transfer=KEY_CTRLT
unread_chat=KEY_CTRLF
up=KEY_UP

I settled for now, with this changes to default key.conf, because Home and End keys didn't work (edited to show actual "key names"):

$ grep -E 'd_word|[dn]_line|home|^end' ~/.nchat/key.conf
backward_word=\33\133\61\73\65\104    # ^left
begin_line=\4001046                   # A-left
end=\4001024                          # ^down
end_line=\4001065                     # A-right
forward_word=\33\133\61\73\65\103     # ^right
home=\4001075                         # ^up

Right now, Home and End shouldn't be assigned, when pressed in nchat, shows:

• End: [4~
• Home (wait 4 next press to show): [1~

Keydump from my keyboard:

\4171414 home
\4171410 end
\4171403 ^left
\4171413 ^right
\4001075 ^up
\4001024 ^down
\4001046 A-left
\4001065 A-right
\4001062 ^RePag
\4001055 ^AvPag

I did try to use ^left and ^right from this (keydump), but didn't work.
Maybe some functions are hardcoded and clash with key.conf?

---

• I think that default home= and end= shouldn't be Home and End keys, because I never did use it, and I don't see that many people use it that. It's a LOT more useful to assign that to "standard keyboard navigation" as op said.
• Should be a way to assign a function, to at least two keys (because international keyboards has some different keys than us).
• Also I did check with xterm, and happens the same, with Meta Send Escape enabled.
• I don't know if it's related, maybe is another bug?, but when I do Alt-e to edit a message in external editor, also Home and End don't work, but If I edit outside nchat works as expected.

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Keyboard: Trust GXT 833 (Spanish)

$ nchat -v | head -1
nchat v4.13

$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     es
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

$ neofetch distro kernel
distro: Arch Linux x86_64
kernel: 6.1.52-1-lts