On Jan 9, 2008 3:31 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 08.01.2008 um 17:32 schrieb Forrest: > > > > thank you for your patience, however, do you mean that only printing > > characters and C-@ to C-_ can be processed by emacs? > > Please don't mix up GNU Emacs and your console! > > > > then what if you press F1~F12? and Home, End, Del, Ins? and Left, > > Right, Up, > > Down? > > These keys are not producing Control-anything events. Simple proof: C- > q . > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. > We don't believe this to be a coincidence. > - Jeremy S. Anderson > > > > i wrote a program which invokes `getchar()' at startup, then i press `C-,', nothing happened, while `C-[a~z]' seem ok. so i think the terminal doesn't pass all of the C- combinations to the program, i don't know which ones are chosen, but obviousely `C-,' and `C-.' are not i tried to figure out why, then i googled much but got little helpful, it seems that `terminfo' is the point but i cannot understand what it is, the output of 'infocmp' is a mess for me :( i have changed the scrolling key-bindings to `M-n' and `M-p' and they work good in the console -- Stupid is as stupid does.