PageUp and PageDown keys for Irssi (IRC) in Macbook?

Question

I cannot find the keys on my mackbook. I need them to go page-up and page-down in irssi (IRC). I have tested the tips here but they do not work. They model some different Up/Down, not the traditional Up/Down as on larger keyboards.

How can I press PageUp and PageDown buttons with Macbook? Irssi is running behind ssh and GNU Screen with UTF8 support.

score 42 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '13 at 17:03

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It took me a while to guess that and I didn't find anything on Google, so at least, if somebody needs it, it's fn + Up/Down in iTerm 2.

answered May 26 '13 at 17:03

F.X.

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Brilliant, this saved me! I've used fn-shift-up/down for years and just upgraded to El Capitan and spent several days in confusion... – nmjk May 08 '16 at 02:00
Ha, glad I could help! It's weird that this still gets upvotes when I'm not even using a Mac anymore, though. Something missing in iTerm's docs? – F.X. May 08 '16 at 20:42
Same for Terminal.app – A T Sep 21 '20 at 06:07
hey Huawei Matebook user brought here by search engine, this shall work for you too! – Mika Feiler Jul 14 '23 at 17:02

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '13 at 09:12

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fn + shift + Up/Down

IIRC in previous versions of Mac OS X (Lion or perhaps earlier), fn had to come first. But I just tested fn vs. shift first and neither had a different effect.

This may be Terminal.app specific, and may not work in iTerm 2. YMMV

answered Mar 19 '13 at 09:12

Jason Salaz

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Thank you! Worked like charm with mountain lion, happy easter! – hhh Mar 29 '13 at 21:11

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 13 '16 at 01:23

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In Terminal, go to Preferences... > Profiles. Click your 'Default' profile or the one you're currently using. Click the 'Keyboard' tab. Click 'Use Option as meta key'. Now Option-P and Option-N will do page back and page up.

Control-P and Control-N are view page up/down... so it's super nice.

edited Jun 13 '16 at 01:23

user3439894

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answered Jun 13 '16 at 00:11

aerickson

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This will disable all the cool characters that you can input via option key. What I'd like to have is option+n/p functioning, I made an issue about that. – Martin Braun Feb 13 '23 at 20:21

nbari · Answer 4 · 2018-10-26T09:16:13.167

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I'm using irssi within tmux on Yosemite.

When using laptop keyboard (no number pad) this works: fn + shift + up/down

or (mojave)

fn + up/down

When using a standard keyboard shift + page up/page down

edited Oct 26 '18 at 09:16

answered Dec 10 '14 at 08:37

nbari

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 05 '14 at 16:52

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I'm using irssi on Mavericks. For me it was fn + shift+ Up/Down

answered Jul 05 '14 at 16:52

Javier Cancio

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 01 '16 at 15:50

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On El Capitan with standard keyboard I got just page up/page down buttons to work fine out of the box.

answered Aug 01 '16 at 15:50

james-see

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PageUp and PageDown keys for Irssi (IRC) in Macbook?

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