From: dickey@invisible-island.net (Thomas E. Dickey)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: keypad bindings in gnome not in xTerm ??
Date: 20 Aug 2008 12:37:08 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48ac0ff4$0$24558$e4f62565@news.jtan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.17021.1219134578.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, I see the same thing: - runs the command self-insert-command
>
> Note the absence of "(translated from <kp-subtract>)", which means
> that the terminal sent "-" to Emacs rather than an escape sequence.
> You can confirm that with `<kp-subtract> C-h l'.
>
> So I think you are out of luck and cannot bind <kp-subtract>
> independently of "-" in xterm. But a little bit of Googling
Actually, xterm would send an escape sequence for the keypad-minus in
keypad application mode (not requiring X resource changes). The
relevant (but terse...) information is in xterm's control-sequences
document, e.g.,
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html
> suggests that you might be able to get xterm to send escape
> sequences via X resources; then Emacs should automatically
> recognize <kp-subtract> via function-key-map.
>
> Please let us know if you figure out how to get xterm to
> send escape sequences for the keypad.
>
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-15 4:41 keypad bindings in gnome not in xTerm ?? William Case
2008-08-15 11:16 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-08-15 15:26 ` William Case
2008-08-19 8:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-08-19 14:09 ` William Case
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2008-08-20 12:37 ` Thomas E. Dickey [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.16810.1218813978.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-15 23:37 ` Chat
2008-08-16 5:59 ` William Case
2008-08-16 6:02 ` William Case
[not found] ` <mailman.16792.1218798998.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-11 2:00 ` David Combs
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