From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding xterm-extras to Emacs Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:31:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200706122221.l5CMLMoY018433@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200706122243.l5CMhMLv019775@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200706130047.l5D0lqUE027336@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <877iq8kx46.fsf@dur.ac.uk> <200706131415.l5DEF98f009840@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181748734 3282 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2007 15:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Peter Heslin , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 13 17:32:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HyUpJ-00067M-Oe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:32:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyUpJ-0000hu-1v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyUpG-0000hp-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyUpD-0000hd-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyUpD-0000ha-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HyUpD-0005Tz-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7682CF52C; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:31:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6997F3FE0; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:31:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5710F6C812; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:31:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200706131415.l5DEF98f009840@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed\, 13 Jun 2007 07\:15\:09 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72767 Archived-At: >> When we discussed this by e-mail some time ago, I suggested that rather >> than limiting term/xterm.el to those bindings currently used by Emacs, >> we should provide mappings for all possible escape sequences emitted by >> a current xterm with modifyOtherKeys set. > That is certainly a valid approach. I didn't take because at the time > I did that work emacs was in a feature freeze for the 22.1 release. I > didn't want to have the changes postponed for after the release, so I > tried to do the minimal, but still enough for useful work. I guess it made sense then, but now I encourage people to add such exhaustive keybinding to term/xterm.el. Ideally, part of the contents of term/xterm.el should be auto-generated from the source code (or the doc) of the xterm program, so we can be sure we're complete and up-to-date. Stefan