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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How does the Meta/Alt-Key work behind the scenes?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:43:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4oev8p8.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pq3yinyu.fsf@gmail.com

William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:

Hi William,

> TTY keys are complicated, and really limit the ability of an application
> like Emacs to use its bucky bits.  Some chords that are valid in a
> window system are not valid in a console (or in a terminal emulator
> under normal circumstances, which acts like a console).  See
> e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_control_characters and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code to get a feel for what is
> possible and what is missing.

thanks for the links, nice background info, its really not as simple as
it looks at first sight. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.12043.1351673061.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-10-31 15:02 ` How does the Meta/Alt-Key work behind the scenes? Stefan Monnier
2012-10-31 16:24   ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]   ` <mailman.12074.1351700673.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-10-31 16:51     ` William Gardella
2012-10-31 17:43       ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2012-10-31 18:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-31 19:32       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-10-31  8:44 Thorsten Jolitz

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