Question

I’m running emacs from within a terminal window on Mac OS X. From the bash shell at the same terminal, I can use Shift + <Home> and Shift + <end> to go to the beginning and end of the line respectively. When I’m inside emacs, these don’t work. I get the error:

M-[ h is undefined

and

M-[ f is undefined

Is this the fault of emacs or the terminal emulator? I can see how to change the control characters that the terminal sends, but as far as I can tell these are the right control characters to send (and it works outside of emacs).

Answer 1

Put these in your .emacs:

(global-set-key (kbd "M-[ h") 'beginning-of-line)                                 
(global-set-key (kbd "M-[ f") 'end-of-line)