From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keyboard coding system in console mode Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:45:07 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1156150685.367195.317260@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156172789 25482 80.91.229.2 (21 Aug 2006 15:06:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:06:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 21 17:06:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFBDf-0005DQ-EJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:57:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFBDf-0000Bl-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFBDW-0000Be-3q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFBDU-0000BC-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFBDU-0000B7-97 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:57:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GFBKt-0000Hb-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GFB7K-0003iL-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:51:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:51:06 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:51:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <1156150685.367195.317260@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> 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:36802 Archived-At: augukarl@yahoo.se wrote: > When I run emacs as `emacs -nw' I have noticed that the keyboard > behaves strangely; e.g. `C-tab' is bound to `tab' and `C-up' is bound > to `ESC O'. What's happening? 1. The terminal is sending the same key code for C-tab as for tab, so Emacs can't distinguish them. 2. The terminal sends an escape sequence for up, which Emacs decodes via function-key-map. The terminal probably sends the same escape sequence for C-up as for up. -- Kevin