The default handling of pageup and pagedown by xterm under Xsun is annoying. When you hit page up in xterm, it scrolls up. This behavior is undesirable and different from what I'm used to using. So, Xresources to the rescue.

Xterm supports a number of options including keybindings, here's my fix. This will send a "page up" or "page down" character sequence to your terminal if you hit page up or page down, respectively. Shift+pageup still works as expected (actually scrolls)

! Override default action when hitting pageup and pagedown - actually
! send the ANSI code for page up
*VT100.translations: #override \n\
	~Shift <Key>Prior: string(0x1b) string("[5~") \n\
	~Shift <Key>Next: string(0x1b) string("[6~") \n

Put that in your .Xresources and load it with:

xrdb -merge .Xresources

This file should get loaded automatically when you login through dtlogin, but I haven't tested this yet.

I started thinking about the redesign tonight, and Mason is clearly more than I need.

I still want to use mod_perl, but don't want a whole mess of perl scripts to drive the website. So instead of going with either end of the spectrum, I've started writing my own perl handler (PerlHandler option in apache). It's dead simple and will let me do things I need to do with apache and also allow me to have most of the site driven with XML and XSLT in some very cool ways.

More news on this as it develops.