From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dickey@his.com, bug-ncurses@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs difficulties in linux console with ncurses-6.3 caused by kcbt=\E^I.
Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 17:37:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YnauRrWbVUsuYHZU@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83levdxu3y.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello, Eli.
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 18:03:45 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 14:35:06 +0000
> > Cc: dickey@his.com, bug-ncurses@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > > > Maybe we can write an entry in PROBLEMS and leave it to the user to fix
> > > > in her .emacs. Or maybe we can put code in lisp/term/linux.el
> > > > ourselves.
> > > I'm okay with both alternatives, since I have no opinion on what is
> > > more important to users of Emacs on the Linux console.
> > Having thought about it, I think putting
> > (define-key input-decode-map "\e\t" nil)
> > into lisp/term/linux.el would be the best thing. It will restore Emacs
> > on the Linux console to what it was before the recent ncurses release.
> Fine with me.
OK, DONE, it works. :-)
> > > > I don't know how typical I am of Linux console users, but I have my
> > > > keymap set up to send a different code for <shift><tab> - namely
> > > > "\033[4}\011".
> > > Perhaps that PROBLEMS entry could suggest that as well, so that users
> > > could have the cake and eat it, too.
> > Here's a first stab at the PROBLEMS entry, under * Runtime problems on
> > character terminals>:
> Also fine, thanks. But please capitalize "TAB" and "ESC" in the text,
> to make them consistent with our notation elsewhere.
One other little thing: I think this problem counts as "major" or "safe",
so the fix should go onto the release branch, shouldn't it, despite the
upcoming release being nn.2?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-07 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-05 18:18 Emacs difficulties in linux console with ncurses-6.3 caused by kcbt=\E^I Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-06 0:01 ` Thomas Dickey
2022-05-06 11:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-06 18:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-06 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 10:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-07 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 14:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-07 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-07 17:37 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-05-07 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-08 23:37 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-08 12:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-08 16:05 ` Thomas Dickey
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