From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to set C-tab for 'other-window in terminal Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:30:03 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87hc1mlwqs.fsf@galatea.local> References: <729aeafd-0473-4175-9b1d-2c2cbf800b1c@y34g2000prb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237650059 17623 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2009 15:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 21 16:42:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ll3Kx-0001rk-0h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:42:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56124 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll3Ja-0005iw-EA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:40:50 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZDQwODIyYzhjZmRmMGRkYzcyYTUwNTVkZGJlNjhmZmMzM2IwZGZkYg== Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Mar 2009 16:30:05 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1237649405 news-4.free.fr 21481 88.182.134.169:50380 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.ecp.fr!feed.ac-versailles.fr!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-b.proxad.net!nnrp17-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167879 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63171 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 21.03.2009 um 14:02 schrieb Santanu: > >> What am I missing? > > > Understanding. > > A terminal or a terminal emulation in software has 32 control > characters. To learn them, invoke > > M-x unix-manual RET ascii RET > > They are those before SPC. However, there is a solution with some terminal emulators (or if you have access to it, you could modify the firmware of your terminal). Eg. with xterm, you could add translations to map X key chords to ASCII control sequences, and then have emacs interpret these control sequences. Have a look at http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/daveg/Info/backtab-howto.txt -- __Pascal Bourguignon__