Re: Adding xterm-extras to Emacs

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

  > ----- Dan Nicolaescu (2007-06-12) wrote:-----
  > 
  > > Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
  > >
  > >   > Dear all,
  > >   > 
  > >   > When I run emacs in terminal like xterm I find that xterm-extras.el¹
  > >   > crucial. It makes almost all key bindings available in X also available
  > >   > in terminal.
  > >   > 
  > >   > I wonder if we can include the file or add such functionality to
  > >   > an appropriate existing package in Emacs.
  > >   > 
  > >   > Footnotes: 
  > >   > ¹ http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Emacs/Download/xterm-extras.el
  > >
  > > In emacs-22 xterm-extras.el is not needed anymore, term/xterm.el
  > > should bind all the keys that xterm-extras.el does (and more). 
  > >
  > > If you know of any bindings that are still missing, please point them
  > > out and they will be added.
  > 
  > I check term/xterm.el and it seems a lot of key combinations should be
  > available. However I randomly choose two key bindings
  > 
  > 'C-;'     => inserts ';'

This only works if you set modifyOtherKeys to 1 and iff you have a new
enough xterm (after 216). This didn't work with xterm-extras.el

  > 'M-S-up'  => inserts 'A'

Does it do that if you start from emacs -Q? 
Can you show the result of C-q M-S-up   ?
(My window manager uses M-S-up so I can't test that one).