From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to make work with in xterm? Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <1160802062.842063.186330@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160854842 26673 80.91.229.2 (14 Oct 2006 19:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: ilya Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 14 21:40:40 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 1GYpN0-0007pS-GZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYpMz-0007BE-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!ilya Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1160851245 96941 169.229.140.13 (14 Oct 2006 18:40:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:40:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: trn [how to get a version via %-escapes???] with a custom header X-How-To-Reach-Me: The From: address is valid X-How-To-Disable-Cc: Put in the headers the line: Mail-Copies-To: never Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142416 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38037 Archived-At: [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to ], 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 > > work with 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