From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 19:45:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je7jyyvici.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lm7jyyeqsy.fsf@dernhelm.edmonton.yottayotta.com> (Dale Hagglund's message of "Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:35:09 -0700")
Dale Hagglund <rdh@yottayotta.com> writes:
> I poked around a bit in term/*.el but I didn't see where the termcap
> interpretation is happening.
See src/term.c:term_get_fkeys_1.
> That aside, wouldn't it still be better to use the generate the same
> <delete> function key for for the same physical key both under X and
> xterm (or a real vt220, for that matter)?
Emacs has to depend on the terminal information database. There is no way
to find out the physical location of a key in termcap/terminfo.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-07 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-07 3:35 inconsistent bindings of backspace and delete between X and xterm Dale Hagglund
2004-02-07 14:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-07 17:35 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-07 18:45 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-02-08 0:32 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-08 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-07 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-07 15:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-07 17:27 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-07 18:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-02-07 17:21 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-11 0:13 ` Dale Hagglund
2004-02-11 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-11 10:03 ` Dale Hagglund
[not found] ` <mailman.2052.1076164878.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-07 21:00 ` Thomas Dickey
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