From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: terminal.el: terminal-escape-char impossible in European keyboards Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:43:25 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093556842 12842 80.91.224.253 (26 Aug 2004 21:47:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 23:47:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0S5R-000213-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:47:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0SA4-0007ed-Qf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0SA2-0007eL-N7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0SA1-0007e9-AO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0SA1-0007dz-7i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C0S4b-0007Pw-9W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12098B07F01; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:43:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Jari Aalto X-Yow: Spreading peanut butter reminds me of opera!! I wonder why? In-Reply-To: (Jari Aalto's message of "Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:36:05 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:8819 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:8819 Jari Aalto writes: > I wuold like to propose that the > > terminal-escape-char ?\C-^ > > is changed to a better alternative. The ^ character (including ~) too > is not a natural key at least in Finnish keyboard. I don't know > the technical term, but it's those "dead" keys that need to be configur= ed > separately. > > I was ssh'ing to remote site and working in "emacs -nw" and opened > op M-x terminal-emulator, just to find out that there was nothing I > could do to get back to the Emacs where it was running. The default > key terminal-escape-char was not produced in this remote ssh connection= . On most terminals you should be able to produce C-^ by typing Ctrl-6. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."