From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keystrokes sending digit prefixes Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 07:11:14 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20160929151114.GB2607@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20160929001128.GA2607@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475161926 2414 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2016 15:12:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:12:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 29 17:11:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bpd06-0007lP-Ok for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:11:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpd05-0007ob-9C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38931) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpczY-0007iw-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpczU-0002Ip-9F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:44886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpczU-0002IS-0b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: by linus.johnson.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E31DC200533; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 07:11:14 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111418 Archived-At: * Yuri Khan [160929 02:37]: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > The Jelly Comb has three "non-typical" keys: left parens, right > > parens and equals. > > > > These keys are not being translated as characters by linux. At the > > gnome console, '(' prints 040, ')' prints 041, and '=' prints 061 > > The python interpreter acts the same way. > > > > xev reads multiple keysyms and keycodes from each press. > > > > Emacs (in Gui mode) handles these keys in an interesting fashion - > > at least interesting to me. > > > > On emacs, these three keys produce digit prefixes: 40, 41 and 60 > > respectively. > > My crystal ball says they imitate the Windows way of entering > characters by code where you turn on Num Lock, hold down Alt, then > enter the character code on the numeric keypad and finally release > Alt. Pretty much, yes. -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com