From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vincent Lefevre Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ";0c" in terminal with slow connections Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:21:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20070908082105.GR9115@prunille.vinc17.org> References: <20070903105723.GA4091@prunille.vinc17.org> <200709060534.l865YScm001171@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <20070906125034.GE9115@prunille.vinc17.org> <200709071413.l87EDkeI026980@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189239690 9755 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 08:21:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 10:21:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITvZ9-0000W4-5Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:21:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITvZ6-0000xG-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:21:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITvZ3-0000xB-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITvZ1-0000wz-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:21:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITvZ1-0000ww-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from vinc17.pck.nerim.net ([213.41.242.187] helo=prunille.vinc17.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITvYy-0004wr-Je; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: by prunille.vinc17.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id DCB7E18E3395; Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:21:05 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Followup-To: Vincent Lefevre , Dan Nicolaescu , rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200709071413.l87EDkeI026980@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> X-Mailer-Info: http://www.vinc17.org/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16-vl-r18739 (2007-09-04) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 6.x (2) 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:78242 Archived-At: On 2007-09-07 07:13:46 -0700, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > The reason is to enable the modifyOtherKeys feature in new enough > xterms. With that feature enabled key combinations C-. C-, > and other keys that are normally not usable in a terminal generate > distinct keys and emacs can bind them. Only newer versions of xterm > can do this and AFAIK no other terminal emulators that set TERM to > xterm can do it. >=20 > If we just send the escape sequence to enable modifyOtherKeys on a > terminal that does not support it, the escape sequence will appear as > junk on the screen.=20 Why not let the user configure his xterm the way he likes? If you enable modifyOtherKeys, won't the configuration change for other applications running in xterm? What if the user has set up VT100 translations corresponding to C-. C-, and so on? --=20 Vincent Lef=E8vre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)