From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Dickey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <10k19352410gmac@corp.supernews.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094755492 7637 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2004 18:44:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 09 20:44:45 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5TuX-0007jB-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 20:44:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5Tzs-0002PO-5U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:50:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 48 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125216 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20570 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20570 Kai Grossjohann 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