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 20:32:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txta30al.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvk3u67cg7.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Try: "emacs -nw -Q" and then "C-% C-% C-h l"
> In the *Help* buffer you'll then see the bytes received by Emacs and
> you'll notice that C-% is not there.
Yes, I see.
> Emacs handles this via the `input-decode-map' to convert this sequence
> back into its more meaningful "C-%". This map is mostly initialized
> from the terminfo database (and completed by lisp/term/$TERM.el).
How much work there is involved just to enable a few apparently
inoffensive key combinations...
Thank you, the /term/xterm.el file is a great source of information for
me. And its nice to find out a bit about how Emacs works under the hood.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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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
2012-10-31 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-31 19:32 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2012-10-31 8:44 Thorsten Jolitz
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