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Re: console key tutorial, revised (was: Re: Make Super key work in conso


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: console key tutorial, revised (was: Re: Make Super key work in console - was Re: math (was: Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users))
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:05:15 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07)

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-02-14 09:22]:
> Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> > In relation of virtual terminal and tty in relation of
> > Supera key they are not quite same. `konsole' is virtual
> > terminal and allows usage of Super key. For example
> > loadkeys, dumpkeys, they don't work in XTerm here as they
> > cannot get descriptor of the console. That is not same.
> > Correct your text if you find it so after inspection of
> > this statement.
> 
> OK, added xterm as an explicit example:
> 
>   At the very least in the context of this tutorial, VT, tty
>   and console all refer to the same thing. But they are not
>   the same as any Unix "terminal emulator" (e.g., xterm, rxvt
>   etc) as they run in X. For sure, none of this stuff works
>   in X.
> 
> > and separately, define Super key in tty. At least tell me
> > what could be done Yesterday `showkey' have shown to me in
> > tty that it is 125. Alright. Now how to make it work
> > in Emacs?
> 
> The tutorial is supposed to answer that question :)

It means you do not know a solution, I will assume so. We need it. It
could liberate thousands of possible key combinations before the
keyboard dies on desktop. Rush.




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