From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com>,
help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does code exist to check if a key sequence is valid for Emacs running in terminal mode?
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:51:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZpE0zWPQ4PVaJY2G@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8UhCh77BSzAjgGgGmTUnj-_SG-UnNzDy-bW-bAAieRuvg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 08:10:48PM +0700, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 at 19:15, Pierre Rouleau <prouleau001@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does Emacs already have a predicate function that can be used to check if
> > the specified key sequence is valid for Emacs running in terminal mode?
> >
> > For example, "C-;" is not accessible on Emacs running in terminal mode
> > because this is not an ASCII control character. It's available for Emacs
> > running in graphical environment, but not in terminal mode.
>
> This is probably not solvable because an advanced terminal can
> implement a protocol extension that represents arbitrary keys as
> escape sequences that can then be turned into Emacs key events using
> input-decode-map.
Well, that's not fair :-)
"God made the VT100, all else is the work of man" [1]
Cheers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-12 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-12 12:14 Does code exist to check if a key sequence is valid for Emacs running in terminal mode? Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-12 12:53 ` Robert Pluim
2024-07-12 13:07 ` tomas
2024-07-12 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-12 15:06 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-12 14:48 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-12 14:58 ` Robert Pluim
2024-07-12 13:10 ` Yuri Khan
2024-07-12 13:51 ` tomas [this message]
2024-07-12 14:35 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-12 14:41 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-12 14:57 ` Yuri Khan
2024-07-12 15:05 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-12 19:30 ` tomas
2024-07-13 14:12 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-13 20:06 ` tomas
2024-07-12 23:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-13 13:45 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-12 14:45 ` Robert Pluim
2024-07-12 14:57 ` Pierre Rouleau
2024-07-17 2:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-07-19 13:31 ` Pierre Rouleau
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