bug in xterm -nw mode?

[Sam Halliday]

hi there,

i have seen other people with the same thing as me on many mailing
lists. this
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/debian-devel-200004/msg00261.html
mail from a Rodrigo Castro was the solution for me, but his posting
(quite some time ago) seemed to go unnoticed by the xemacs team and i
dont know if this has ever been reported to FSF emacs.

basically, if i start up emacs from an xterm (aterm with
TERM=xterm-color) with "-nw", the [home] and [end] keys do not work as
they do in a console (i use TERM=linux there), [end] does nothing, and
[home] starts up a string search. (The Del key also deletes backwards
instead of forwards.)

a `cat [home] [end]` gives
  ^[[1~^[[4~

i quote Rodrigo:
  /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.8/lisp/term/xterm.elc is apparently wrong - it
  defines [find] instead of [home] and [select] instead of [end].

Rodrigo gives a solution which i repeat here, but i solve the Delete key
situation in a different way (as i have Del key issues in X with SUN
machines):

  (if window-system
      (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1)
    (normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 0))

  (defun xterm-setup-hook ()
    (define-key function-key-map "\e[1~" [home])
    (define-key function-key-map "\e[4~" [end]))
  (setq term-setup-hook 'xterm-setup-hook)

is this a bug, or is it intented behaviour?

cheers,
Sam