From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
Subject: Re: How to make <shift> work with <control> in xterm?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:40:45 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <egravd$2uld$1@agate.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1160802062.842063.186330@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
<id.brep@gmail.com>], who wrote in article <1160802062.842063.186330@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
> In the emacs manual, it's said:
>
> On ASCII terminals, there are only 32 possible control characters.
> These are the control variants of letters and `@[]\^_'. In addition,
> the shift key is meaningless with control characters: `C-a' and `C-A'
> are the same character, and Emacs cannot distinguish them.
>
> I use xterm, I think it's graphical terminal, is it possibleto make
> <shit>
> work with <control> in xterm?
With special keys, it should work out-of-the-box (with sufficiently
new xterm) [of course, Emacs is (was?) too stupid to support keys with
modifiers out-of-the box; if current one is still that stupid, see
ilyaz.org/software/emacs, look for `key' `modifier' in customization files].
With ASCII key, if Thomas suggestion on modify-other-keys does not
help, you may want to add xterm keybindings which would send, e.g.,
C-x @ c A for C-S-a etc.
Hope this helps,
Ilya
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-14 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-14 5:01 How to make <shift> work with <control> in xterm? id.brep
2006-10-14 6:00 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2006-10-14 8:43 ` id.brep
2006-10-14 12:05 ` dickey
2006-10-14 7:06 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2006-10-14 18:40 ` Ilya Zakharevich [this message]
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