From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make Super key work in console Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 19:27:42 +0200 Message-ID: <837dn2zm29.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8735y06nap.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tuqg585j.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <87pn12zbgc.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <875z2twank.fsf@zoho.eu> <83h7m6zpr5.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16729"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 18:28:45 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1lDW3g-0004G4-3h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:28:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41402 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDW3f-0005XV-57 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:28:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDW2x-0005Vx-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:27:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lDW2x-0007VR-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:27:59 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2484 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lDW2v-0007gt-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:27:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:49:46 -0500) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128150 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:49:46 -0500 > > But for a terminal emulator, the one who "types those keys" is the > terminal emulator, so it wouldn't be "burdened" by having to type > a few more keys to have a clear and unambiguous encoding. > > > This is in no way singular: many terminal emulators convert > > M-SOMETHING into ESC SOMETHING, at least as an option. > > That also somewhat sucks, but *much* less (and it was done at a time > when you could argue that resource constraints made it important to have > a "short and simple" approach rather than a "general, robust, and > reliable" one). I don't think I understand. Given the APIs used by text-mode programs to read keyboard input, what are the alternatives for those "yucky" methods?