From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives[left]/[right], not [S-left]/[S-right]
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:34:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861xhbet7f.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: OF106C5AB6.F63C291B-ON85256F09.00579E76@irm.r9.fws.gov
Charles_Davis@fws.gov writes:
> I cannot seem to get Emacs to recognize either the control or shift
> modifiers for any of the arrow or 6-pack keys. Only the meta-key modifier
> seems to be recognized. Is there some variable I need to set to make the
> use of control and shift modifiers of these keys possible?
When you use a terminal, it sends escape sequences to the application
when you hit the cursor keys. Many terminals send the same escape
sequence for, say, <left> and C-<left> and S-<left>. So the
application (Emacs in this case) cannot distinguish them.
These days, terminals can be configured to send different escape
sequences for these cases. Then you need to teach Emacs which escape
sequence stands for which keypress, and then you can bind these
keypresses normally.
Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-08 16:08 read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives[left]/[right], not [S-left]/[S-right] Charles_Davis
2004-09-09 8:34 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
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2004-09-09 11:39 Charles_Davis
2004-09-09 12:54 ` Kai Grossjohann
[not found] ` <mailman.2142.1094734877.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-09 18:43 ` Thomas Dickey
2004-09-26 11:51 ` Kai Grossjohann
[not found] <mailman.1987.1094660096.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-08 20:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-09-09 3:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
[not found] <mailman.1740.1094515688.1998.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-07 1:21 ` read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives [left]/[right], not [S-left]/[S-right] ? Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-09-07 0:02 Drew Adams
2004-09-07 11:55 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-09-07 14:32 ` read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives[left]/[right], " Drew Adams
2004-09-07 14:47 ` Stefan
2004-09-07 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2004-09-08 0:22 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-08 0:47 ` Drew Adams
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