From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, bug-ncurses@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs difficulties in linux console with ncurses-6.3 caused by kcbt=\E^I.
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 07:26:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo80ac3eb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220506000102.GA10144@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net> (Thomas Dickey's message of "Thu, 5 May 2022 20:01:02 -0400")
> A bug report got me to verify this, and
> shift-tab on the console appeared to send that sequence,
> so I documented it in the terminal description.
The problem is that both Alt-TAB and Shift-TAB send that same byte
sequence, so claiming that ESC TAB is `backtab` is not really correct.
It may be `backtab` but it may be Meta-TAB as well.
> commit 0baa7f071e79bb700b62b1f8507630387cbc4bbb
> Author: Alexey Gladkov <legion@altlinux.org>
> Date: Tue May 8 22:55:07 2007 +0400
>
> Apply patchkbd-1.12-Meta-Tab.diff from SUSE
>
> Convert Shift Tab to Meta_Tab
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@altlinux.org>
Interesting. So it looks like the intent of the change was to make
Shift-TAB behave as another Meta-TAB, whereas with the ncurses change
the end result is that Shift-TAB was changed to `backtab` (rather than
Meta-TAB) and Meta-TAB was made "impossible" to input.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-06 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-05 18:18 Emacs difficulties in linux console with ncurses-6.3 caused by kcbt=\E^I Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-06 0:01 ` Thomas Dickey
2022-05-06 11:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-05-06 18:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-06 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 10:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-07 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 14:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-07 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 17:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-07 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-08 23:37 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-08 12:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-08 16:05 ` Thomas Dickey
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