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irssi and iTerm

January 31st, 2007 Rev Leave a comment Go to comments

I was having problems getting iTerm to work well with irssi.. specifically.. using the alt/option key to swap between tabs in irssi. Alt wasn’t doing it..even when set to Meta or +esc. So I dug around and found this in some comments to someones post about needing a new term app.

If you’re on a MacbookPro laptop, and using irssi with screen on a remote machine via ssh; heres what works (for me)

To switch between irssi windows (normally alt+1 etc.) - use;
Press Esc, let go - then press number, 1, 2 whatever

To pageup/pagedown - use this keyboard sequence (must be in this order)

Press (and hold) Shift-key, now Press and hold fn-key, now with these keys pressed (in that order) - press the pageup (arrow up) or pagedown (arrow down) keys to pageup/down

If your backspace key is acting as a ‘delete’-key in irssi in screen, Hit command+I, in terminal to bring up your window preferences, under the Keyboard settings, tick ‘Delete key sends backspace’ - that should fix that.

So, slightly more tricky on the laptop, but achievable none-the-less

Matt

Thanks, Matt

Who ever you are.

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  1. March 21st, 2007 at 14:47 | #1

    Nice to see you’re using irssi :)

  2. Pablo
    August 7th, 2007 at 17:31 | #2

    How do you do this in the latest version of iTerm (0.9.5)? The option isnt in the Info inspector

  3. November 23rd, 2007 at 21:19 | #3

    Much thanks. This problem was causing me much grief.

  4. mudkip
    September 3rd, 2008 at 02:38 | #4

    @Pablo

    I did this:

    Bookmarks > Manage Profiles (cmd+opt+B)

    Keyboard Profiles

    xterm (OS X)

    change:

    Key Combination | Action
    _______________|_____________________
    delete send hex code 7f

    to:

    Key Combination | Action
    _______________|_____________________
    delete send hex code 8

    This worked for me.

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