Re: Patch to make readline parse CSI keycodes properly

[Chet Ramey]

> me scribbled:
> > the small patch below
> > defines a function called 'skip-csi-seq' that skips over the CSI
> > parameter, intermediate, and final bytes. This is assigned to "\e[".
> > Since bindings for longer sequences take precedence over shorter ones,
> > CSI sequences that do have functions bound to them continue to work.
> > [...]
> > This is working correctly here, including when adding bindings for
> > longer keycodes: no more odd characters being inserted when
> > accidentally hitting the wrong key.
> 
> Any interest in this? Perhaps without the default key binding?

Sorry, I haven't looked at it yet.  It seems reasonable in concept, though.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/