Re: Best terminal emulator for emacs?

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:55 PM Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Somebody should tell the XTerm maintainer to pass more key
> combinations as escape sequences.  Either that or including a
> comprehensive sample of the 'xterm.vt100.translations' resource in the
> emacs documentation.

First, Somebody should design an unambiguous (as much as reasonably
possible) representation for all kinds of key combinations. Preferably
one that is a superset of the xterm terminfo entry and a subset of the
general ECMA-48 CSI (Control Sequence Introducer) syntax. Otherwise,
Somebody gets an Xterm that generates key sequences that applications
(except your customized Emacs) cannot interpret.

Somebody will also probably want to get support for this extended key
representation incorporated into screen and tmux.

> xterm -xrm \
>     'xterm.vt100.translations:     #override \n\
>       Ctrl ~Shift <Key>BackSpace: string(0x1b) string("C-BackSpace") \n \
>       Ctrl  Shift <Key>BackSpace: string(0x1b) string("C-S-BackSpace")' \

For example, this choice of key representations is very likely to
break the M-C (Alt+Shift+c) combination.