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Re: read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives[left]/[right],
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: read-key-sequence(-vector) on Shift left/right gives[left]/[right], not [S-left]/[S-right] |
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Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:43:49 -0000 |
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tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) |
Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote:
> I'm sorry, I think I neglected to say one important bit of
> information:
sorry, but your posting is inaccurate.
> No terminal I know of comes preconfigured to support C- and S- for
> function keys.
other than xterm and rxvt. It's built into both (though using different
escape sequences).
> And by "configuring" the terminal I meant to use the built-in
> configuration mechanism for the terminal in question so that it
> changes its behavior. For example, for the GNU/Linux console you can
> define keymaps and load them with "loadkeys". (There are predefined
> maps "emacs" and "emacs2", perhaps one of them supports more modifiers
> on function keys.) As another example, the X11 program xterm can also
> be configured through X resources to send different escape sequences.
that part's true.
> But you're using Cygwin. I think Cygwin normally comes with a version
> of rxvt and invokes that for the bash. I don't know whether rxvt can
and xterm of course.
> be configured in the manner I described. I also think that the Cygwin
> bash can be invoked from within the normal command prompt window, but
> I have no idea how to configure that program's keymap.
up-to-date terminal descriptions are at
ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz
> Sorry about the bad news,
> Kai
xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8
There's an faq at
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html
ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/
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Thomas E. Dickey
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