control forward slash on OSX Terminal

control forward slash on OSX Terminal

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Is there something strange about the OSX Terminal's relationship to  
the ctl-/ keystroke? I'd really like to use that for undo, but the  
keystroke never makes it to emacs, I just get a "donk" from Terminal.  
It's not even a regular error -- I've got 'visual bell' set, and most  
warnings flash the screen, but this still goes "donk". Google produced  
something in Japanese, and a couple of very old bug reports that would  
seem to indicate that everything was fixed years ago. Terminal reports  
'ttys' as its TTY name, I don't know if that's relevant.

Here's hoping someone knows what's going on here...

Thanks,
Eric

Re: control forward slash on OSX Terminal

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.01.2009 um 05:35 schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:

> Is there something strange about the OSX Terminal's relationship to  
> the ctl-/ keystroke? I'd really like to use that for undo, but the  
> keystroke never makes it to emacs, I just get a "donk" from Terminal.

You're pressing C-7 or C-g (a, b, c, d, e, f,  »g«) which is \007 or  
BEL. This produces a sound. / is probably Shift-7 on your keyboard,  
too. For me C-S-7 gives DEL, though ...

C-S--, i.e., C-_, gives undo.

The whole looks like a bug in Terminal (for me: in Tiger, Mac OS X  
10.4.11). Let's report it at https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/ 
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