Re: Make Super key work in console

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:49:46 -0500
> 
> But for a terminal emulator, the one who "types those keys" is the
> terminal emulator, so it wouldn't be "burdened" by having to type
> a few more keys to have a clear and unambiguous encoding.
> 
> > This is in no way singular: many terminal emulators convert
> > M-SOMETHING into ESC SOMETHING, at least as an option.
> 
> That also somewhat sucks, but *much* less (and it was done at a time
> when you could argue that resource constraints made it important to have
> a "short and simple" approach rather than a "general, robust, and
> reliable" one).

I don't think I understand.  Given the APIs used by text-mode programs
to read keyboard input, what are the alternatives for those "yucky"
methods?