From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: additional key bindings for xterm Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:43:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20060806174309.GB1245@muc.de> References: <200608041358.k74Dw7uF026973@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154884999 15604 80.91.229.2 (6 Aug 2006 17:23:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 17:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 06 19:23:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G9mL6-00036Z-1o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:23:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G9mL5-0001Gt-7U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G9mKP-00010Y-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G9mKN-000106-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:22:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G9mKN-000103-KY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:22:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.149.48.1] (helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G9mOQ-0004Zm-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 13890 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2006 17:22:10 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (HELO localhost.localdomain) (Debian-exim@193.149.49.134) by mail.muc.de with SMTP; 6 Aug 2006 17:22:10 -0000 Original-Received: from acm by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.50) id 1G9meb-0002LM-KQ; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:43:09 +0100 Original-To: Dan Nicolaescu Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608041358.k74Dw7uF026973@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58147 Archived-At: Hi, Dan! On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:58:04AM -0700, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > xterm-216 when run like this: > xterm -xrm '*modifyOtherKeys:1' > emits distinct strings for key combinations that did not do anything > in the past, for example C-. C-, C-TAB C-return > This allows emacs to use these keys when running in such an xterm. > For example the C-. binding in flyspell-mode was only usable in X, but > not in a terminal in the past. > What other keys would be useful for emacs to support? Please give > specific examples so they can be added to term/xterm.el What other keys _wouldn't_ be useful? On a Linux tty, I have unique keycodes for , , , , , , , , , with all combinations of C-, M-, . I currently have most of them bound. I certainly think the arrow keys should have distinct codes for all 8 modifier combinations. > Thanks > --dan -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany).