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Re: bind function key difference between terminal and Xterm


From: Peter Dyballa
Subject: Re: bind function key difference between terminal and Xterm
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:02:06 +0100


Am 29.11.2008 um 04:27 schrieb Xend:

C-up is an event in a windowing system. but it's not an event in
Terminal. why EMACS can't catch it.


GNU Emacs, when launched without windowing, is a client of its host, the terminal or terminal emulation. What Emacs receives are not events – the terminal emulation, when running in a windowing system, does receive them – but ANSI Esc sequences, by which the cursor can change its shape or gets positioned or is moved or text elements are emphasised etc. Teach your terminal emulation to send different codes for <up> and C-<up> keyboard input, then GNU Emacs will be able to distinguish between them.

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  Pete

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        The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated
        than by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere,
        bread becomes hard while crackers become soft.







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