From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C- key bindings not working on console Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:35:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87fvoe1wrw.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87mwin0y6t.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390494927 31285 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2014 16:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:35:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 17:35:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6NFe-0001ei-7o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:35:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6NFd-0003yD-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:35:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6NFJ-0003wD-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6NFD-00054T-VV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6NFD-00053y-Pv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6NFB-0001RY-Vg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:35:05 +0100 Original-Received: from g231232065.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.232.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:35:05 +0100 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231232065.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:35:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231232065.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q0fiW1ygpg05usqq5OSrBklbvXE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95579 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > That's got nothing to do with Emacs: your text-terminal is the culprit. > But don't worry: it's not just your text-terminal, it's all(?) known > text-terminals. > > Of course, you can configure your text-terminal (e.g. Linux's console) > to send a different escape sequence for those chars, and then tell Emacs > to recognize those sequence. I once investigated how to do that kind of thing, unfortunately I forgot most of it by now and will have relearn it. What is always a bit hard to understand is why e.g. C-M-v will work on the console but C-M-V (i.e. C-M-S-v) won't. One would be tempted to think that if Emacs knows how to deal with C- and M- and S- as modifiers alone or in some combinations it should be able to deal with them always. -- cheers, Thorsten