How to make HOME, END to work on terminal without X

Question

my current keys config is:

typeset -A key

key[Home]=${terminfo[khome]}
key[End]=${terminfo[kend]}
key[Insert]=${terminfo[kich1]}
key[Delete]=${terminfo[kdch1]}
key[Up]=${terminfo[kcuu1]}
key[Down]=${terminfo[kcud1]}
key[Left]=${terminfo[kcub1]}
key[Right]=${terminfo[kcuf1]}
key[PageUp]=${terminfo[kpp]}
key[PageDown]=${terminfo[knp]}

# setup key accordingly
[[ -n "${key[Home]}"    ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Home]}"    beginning-of-line
[[ -n "${key[End]}"     ]]  && bindkey  "${key[End]}"     end-of-line
[[ -n "${key[Insert]}"  ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Insert]}"  overwrite-mode
[[ -n "${key[Delete]}"  ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Delete]}"  delete-char
[[ -n "${key[Up]}"      ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Up]}"      up-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Down]}"    ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Down]}"    down-line-or-history
[[ -n "${key[Left]}"    ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Left]}"    backward-char
[[ -n "${key[Right]}"   ]]  && bindkey  "${key[Right]}"   forward-char

# Finally, make sure the terminal is in application mode, when zle is
# active. Only then are the values from $terminfo valid.
function zle-line-init () {
    echoti smkx
}
function zle-line-finish () {
    echoti rmkx
}

if [ -n "${DISPLAY:-}" ]; then
   zle -N zle-line-init
   zle -N zle-line-finish
fi

completion and other zsh files here: https://github.com/Cynede/dotfiles/blob/master/.zsh/config.sh

The trouble is that this bindkey "${key[Home]}" beginning-of-line doesn't work for terminal with no Xorg running seems like. It pastes ~ on both HOME and END. How can I make it to work without Xorg too?

Answer 1

The $terminfo special parameter in zsh is filled from data that comes from the terminfo database on your system.

In your case, it seems that the entry in the database for the terminal you're using is incorrect.

The terminfo database is indexed on the value of the $TERM environment variable.

So either $TERM is incorrect or the database is incorrect.

What terminal is that? Is that the console of some BSD operating system? What does $TERM contain? Are you logged in locally or logging in to some remote system (which may have a different terminfo database) over ssh/rsh?