Re: buffer switch & copy not under X

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Francesco Scaglioni <fgs@epulse.net> writes:

> 1] when running emacs under X the following in my ~/.emacs is self
> explanatory, yet when running emacs in an xterm (font reasons ) it
> doesn't work.
>
> ; Switch buffer with ctrl-tab
> (global-set-key [(ctrl tab)] 'bury-buffer) ; Ctrl-Tab switches buffers

Type <tab> and then C-<tab> in "emacs -nw", then use C-h l.  I'm
guessing that Emacs will not see the difference between the two.

You first need to teach your terminal to send some sort of escape
sequence for C-<tab>.  Then you need to teach Emacs about this escape
sequence.  Let's say the escape sequence is ESC [ a b c, then the
following will teach Emacs:

(unless window-system
  (define-key function-key-map (kbd "ESC [ a b c") (kbd "C-<tab>")))

For teaching xterm about it, hmmm...   Maybe this works in
~/.Xdefaults or equivalent:

XTerm.VT100.translations: #override \
        Ctrl <Key> Tab: string(0x1B) string("[abc") \n\
        ...other.bindings.here...

Omit the "\n\" part if you only have one translation.

> 2] under x the 'contents' of C-k, C-w and M-w are available to paste
> to other applications elsewhere via a middle mouse button ( I am using
> windowmaker on SuSE 8.0 ) - yet when running emacs within an xterm
> they are not.

Yes.  You are not allowing Emacs to talk to X.  (What if you were
running on the console and there was no X to talk to?)  I don't know
if M-x xterm-mouse-mode RET helps, but it's easy enough to try.

Or maybe you just fix your Emacs font...

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