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Re: Ctrl-[ ?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Ctrl-[ ? |
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Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:01:44 +0300 |
> From: Mattias Engdegård <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 14:44:31 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>,
> Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
>
> 6 juni 2019 kl. 12.12 skrev Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> >
> > It isn't hardcoded in Emacs, it' "hardcoded" in the way the OS produces
> > character codes when you type keys on the keyboard. C-[ produces ESC for
> > the same reason C-i produces TAB and C-j produces RET: these keys emit the
> > same codes as the corresponding Ctrl sequences.
>
> The above is true when Emacs is running in a terminal. Otherwise, Emacs has
> code to emulate that behaviour (make_ctrl_char), so that we can enjoy a whiff
> of early 1960s bit-paired keyboards. And this does appear to be hard-coded,
> in the sense that it cannot be disabled.
Why is it useful to have different behavior on GUI and TTY frames?
- Re: Ctrl-[ ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/06/06
- Re: Ctrl-[ ?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/06/06
- Re: Ctrl-[ ?, Juanma Barranquero, 2019/06/06
- Re: Ctrl-[ ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/06
- Re: Ctrl-[ ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/06/06
- Re: Ctrl-[ ?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/06/06
- Re: Ctrl-[ ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/06