From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: linux console limitations Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:18:34 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83k0inxvjf.fsf@gnu.org> <83ily7xsjw.fsf@gnu.org> <83ee8uyb3w.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuhqwh87.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1cuwd89.fsf@gnu.org> <875yu4s82f.fsf_-_@db48x.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12957"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Brooks Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 12 13:05:41 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1maFbJ-00036V-Am for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:05:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35170 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1maFbG-0005Kn-RX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 07:05:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1maErq-0000z5-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:11159 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1maEro-0004QR-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 42567 invoked by uid 3782); 12 Oct 2021 10:18:36 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15ae7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.90.231]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:18:36 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 8599 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Oct 2021 10:18:34 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875yu4s82f.fsf_-_@db48x.net> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.1; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276779 Archived-At: Hello, Daniel. On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 17:45:28 -0700, Daniel Brooks wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > > The Linux console is limited to 256 glyphs, some of which are used by two > > or several Unicode characters. It would be possible but time consuming > > to amend the font to display the EM-DASH as, say, a minus sign. > I’ve never tried it (I only heard about it last week), but can you run > fbterm? I've also barely heard of it. On a web search, the only articles I could find about it were over 10 years old (I couldn't find anything meaningful on GitHub where it's hosted, either). Some of these articles described how fbterm has "features". Two of these random features took the key sequences C-M-d and C-M-k. I think it uses C- and C- to move to the next/previous terminal. No doubt there are several (or even many) more such features, making the program not very useful for running Emacs, which uses pretty much all the key sequences, certainly all the alphabetical keys + modifiers. So, I've never tried it either. > db48x -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).