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: How does the Meta/Alt-Key work behind the scenes? Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:43:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87r4oev8p8.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <87pq3yinyu.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351705425 30270 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2012 17:43:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:43:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 18:43:54 2012 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 1TTcKX-0005H7-Md for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:43:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTcKP-0006HD-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46243) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTcKE-00068v-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTcK6-0004tx-64 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTcK5-0004t5-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TTcKA-0004iM-Du for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from e178055183.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.55.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178055183.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:43:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178055183.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A99c9PzvGp4+QPriCk02eA92FnY= 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:87507 Archived-At: William Gardella 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