From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Subject: Re: read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives[left]/[right], not [S-left]/[S-right]
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:43:49 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10k19352410gmac@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2142.1094734877.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote:
> I'm sorry, I think I neglected to say one important bit of
> information:
sorry, but your posting is inaccurate.
> No terminal I know of comes preconfigured to support C- and S- for
> function keys.
other than xterm and rxvt. It's built into both (though using different
escape sequences).
> And by "configuring" the terminal I meant to use the built-in
> configuration mechanism for the terminal in question so that it
> changes its behavior. For example, for the GNU/Linux console you can
> define keymaps and load them with "loadkeys". (There are predefined
> maps "emacs" and "emacs2", perhaps one of them supports more modifiers
> on function keys.) As another example, the X11 program xterm can also
> be configured through X resources to send different escape sequences.
that part's true.
> But you're using Cygwin. I think Cygwin normally comes with a version
> of rxvt and invokes that for the bash. I don't know whether rxvt can
and xterm of course.
> be configured in the manner I described. I also think that the Cygwin
> bash can be invoked from within the normal command prompt window, but
> I have no idea how to configure that program's keymap.
up-to-date terminal descriptions are at
ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz
> Sorry about the bad news,
> Kai
xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8
There's an faq at
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html
ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 11:39 read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives[left]/[right], not [S-left]/[S-right] Charles_Davis
2004-09-09 12:54 ` Kai Grossjohann
[not found] ` <mailman.2142.1094734877.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-09 18:43 ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2004-09-26 11:51 ` Kai Grossjohann
[not found] <mailman.1987.1094660096.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-08 20:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-09-09 3:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
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2004-09-08 16:08 Charles_Davis
2004-09-09 8:34 ` Kai Grossjohann
[not found] <mailman.1740.1094515688.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-07 1:21 ` read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives [left]/[right], not [S-left]/[S-right] ? Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-09-07 0:02 Drew Adams
2004-09-07 11:55 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-09-07 14:32 ` read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives[left]/[right], " Drew Adams
2004-09-07 14:47 ` Stefan
2004-09-07 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2004-09-08 0:22 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-08 0:47 ` Drew Adams
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