Re: xterm [menu] key definition

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:53:55PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Please give a look to my last email to Eli. I attached an answer from
>> the xterm maintainer respecting to that. That included a xev output and
>> his comment about this.
>[...]
>> xterm does not map either [print] or [menu] in terminfo but maps
>> kf16=\E[29~ (that's why urxvt mapped S-<f6> == <f16> == [menu] according
>> to their convention)
>
>So, IIUC he's saying that xterm emits `\E[29~` not for `Print` nor for
>`Menu` but for `F16`, right?  So maybe we should have
>
>    (define-key map "\e[29~" [f16])
>
>and then remap `f16` to `menu` maybe even via `S-f6`, but we already
>have a remapping of `f16` to `S-f4`, so it looks like a big pile of mess.
>
in xterm normally `f16` == `S-f4` because the last fkey is 12 not
10. The one with the `wrong` (or less standard) convention here is
urxvt. So our current remapping is fine in this case

>> The real question is why emacs mapped \E[29~ to [print] in xterm;
>
>This dates back to:
>
>    commit 92abb02b9b65b95807fd8fdccad10feed0dd3a96
>    Author: Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>
>    Date:   Fri Jun 9 02:31:33 1995 +0000
>
>        Initial revision
>
>so maybe some kind of xterms back then did that?
>
>FWIW, the f16 => S-f4 mapping dates back to:
>
>    commit 35b1b8abe3d3833ecb4b4cee75b7340ffb707d65
>    Author: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
>    Date:   Tue Apr 26 05:56:22 2005 +0000
>
>        * NEWS: Mention xterm key bindings.
>
>        * term/xterm.el (function-key-map): Fix strings for
>        {C,S,A,C-S}-f[1-4]. Use substitute-key-definition to bind
>        {C,S,A,C-S}-{f1-f12}.
>
And it is actually fine ;)

>Do you have a "menu" key which emits the `Menu` X11 event and for which
>your terminal emits `\E[29~`?
Indeed. I have the same behavior the xterm maintainer described for his
system.

>If so, which terminal is that (details
>like the version may be relevant and maybe the OS or environment)?
>
>
>        Stefan
>
xterm: 368 (but very old versions have the same behavior), OS: Debian,
Arch Linux and Open Suse different versions.