Keys in console

Keys in console

[Xavier Maillard]

Hi,

My problem may be unrelevant on this list but this is a problem I
only have in emacs.

So, I am trying to use S-f10 C-f10 and friends in GNU Emacs (CVS)
in the linux console.

I have set some global-set-key and emacs does not complain.
Problem is that if I am trying to press S F10, it is interpreted
as being F20. I am not an expert of the linux console key setup
thus, I just want to know if the problem is known or if it is a
bug ?

Also, it seems I can't type symbols such as  "copyright" in the
console (in emacs), is it linked to the problem mentionned above
?

Regards

	Xavier
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Re: Keys in console

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> My problem may be unrelevant on this list but this is a problem I
> only have in emacs.
>
> So, I am trying to use S-f10 C-f10 and friends in GNU Emacs (CVS)
> in the linux console.
>
> I have set some global-set-key and emacs does not complain.
> Problem is that if I am trying to press S F10, it is interpreted
> as being F20. I am not an expert of the linux console key setup
> thus, I just want to know if the problem is known or if it is a
> bug?

It's because there's no control code sequences to encode such a
key choard.

You should bind some other key sequence to reach these commands.

For example, in X, we can type C-1 C-0 x to insert ten xs.  But
there's no control code corresponding to digit keys.  So in a
terminal, we have to type C-u 1 0 x to insert ten xs (it works in X
too). 


> Also, it seems I can't type symbols such as  "copyright" in the
> console (in emacs), is it linked to the problem mentionned above?

Yes.

You can get the copyright character, which is in the iso-8859-1
character set, by typing C-x 8 C 

See: iso-transl.el
C-h f iso-transl-define-keys RET

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