Re: key map entry for shift-return?

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Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 9, 7:27 am, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> writes:
>> > Hey, stop being so enigmatic!  I think the OP only wants Shift Return
>> > for his own use, which should be OK.  So please tell him (and me) what
>> > this other complexity is.
>>
>> He's just looking for an excuse to flog his screeds...
>
> Well, perhaps just a sentence or two to answer Alan.
>
> Basically, for good or bad, emacs does not capture the key by itself,
> but goes thru ascii representation in its implementation... my
> phrasing here is not exactl but don't want to spend too much time
> writing this. Basically, the end result is that when people want to
> map keys like Tab, Return, or with modifiers, it has many
> complexities. Many threads asked or discussed these in the past year
> or two here.... another example comes to mind is that emacs is unable
> to capture Ctrl+Shift+key combos in terminal. Perhaps historically
> justifiable... but today's apps that goes thru network don't have this
> limitation...

I'm not sure what this is all about, I never saw the original post.
But binding something to shift return doesn't seem to be a big problem.
Try evaling this:

(define-key global-map [(S-return)] 'compile)

It works for me.

I don't expect it would work in a TTY, but that's an issue with the TTY
not emacs.  For some TTY programs even that can be fixed.