[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: keys that work on terminals
From: |
joakim |
Subject: |
Re: keys that work on terminals |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:45:30 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
> xterm after version 216 has been changed to generate different strings
> for the key combinations that were not usable before. You need to set
> the "modifyOtherKeys" resource to 1 in order to enable this feature.
> This change was done at my request, with the main intention was to
> help emacs key bindings. AFAIK in such an xterm all useful key
> combinations work: things like C-RET, C-. C-, work just fine.
> Unfortunately "modifyOtherKeys" is not set by default, to emacs users
> cannot benefit from this by default.
This is very interesting! I will try this.
> Can we do something to have other terminal emulators support these key
> bindings?
>
> > I use a terminal emulator called Putty sometimes, and an xterm
> > sometimes. They differ in which keys are acceptable. For instance I
> > use shift-arrows for moving between windows using
> > (windmove-default-keybindings). I need to patch Putty to make
> > shift-arrows work, but it works directly with xterm.
>
> IMHO you need to try to convince the putty maintainers to generate the
> shift-arrow keys by default, all modern terminal emulators do that
> (xterm, rxvt, gnome-terminal, konsole).
I've been trying but have so far been unable to get a response.
I have the patch if someones interested.
--
Joakim Verona
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, (continued)
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/11
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/11
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/11
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Miles Bader, 2007/06/11
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Kim F. Storm, 2007/06/12
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, joakim, 2007/06/12
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Kim F. Storm, 2007/06/12
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, joakim, 2007/06/12
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/12
- keys that work on terminals (was: Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs), Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/06/12
- Re: keys that work on terminals,
joakim <=
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/12
- Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elispmanualindex], Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/06
- Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex], Richard Stallman, 2007/06/04
- Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex], Juri Linkov, 2007/06/04
- Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex], Miles Bader, 2007/06/04
- Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex], Juri Linkov, 2007/06/05
- RE: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elispmanualindex], Drew Adams, 2007/06/05
- Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex], Richard Stallman, 2007/06/05
- Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex], Richard Stallman, 2007/06/05
- Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex], Karl Berry, 2007/06/05