From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Modifier keys on ttys (was: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';') Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:08:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26266"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 14:12:45 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nJxdN-0006cs-7P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:12:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57626 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJxdJ-0000Jj-9p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJxaA-0005yR-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:09:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:54282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJxa5-0002nc-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:09:24 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 656BB100189; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:09:01 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 95488100136; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:08:59 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1644930539; bh=2ieA3yT/piVLec7cMRUSQNLt+M9kq29w2obm2g63vlE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=T/3TfSChevd2YUzZ3U/Z75oT4SfpWdpghaiDo2uLjEH/LX5Dlqo4wDhZkhKnVCTvi aYNjZbfBxD5s/uhxLujw28K/mnIDJDniTnwTR7tr44E2DpR6at5HF6FdFl1Af0RSRO vWRRH0CTpF41PgRbM6ExhWKilCIgdACMZEWWy+QyOmHWRfwKJq5UYklBSzRinuruPH R3+9oeTS4BRamC6RaM+01hMWoGf1YPvdfny/xB1JpPlBr3sNWDAvRDxxMBYDzRyfWd ++909uMpiT/WnmE22zxygWXJyboGwycDmjY9mMX14/3XNrTedRgrc2sVCrQEJkmEr0 tNyqZ+aY5LfgA== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [45.72.237.157]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 635DF1202DB; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:08:59 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:56:40 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286321 Archived-At: >> Note that TTYs have no way to represent C-; and friends. > But they do. It just takes a bit of work. loadkeys is your friend. > I've had C-; on my Linux console for over 20 years, now. Indeed. And similar solutions exist for xterm and friends. > As well as loadkeys, you need to set up Emacs with stuff in the > function-key-map to handle the modified keys. It works well. Side note: the "right" way to do it is via `input-decode-map` rather than `function-key-map`, BTW. Stefan