Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:51:35 -0500 | From | Stephen Clark <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: escape key] |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Dec 16 2006 08:45, Pavel Machek wrote: > > >>>Two escapes works now. :-) >>> >>> >>Actually could we fix our consoles, somehow, to make esc usable? >>Having important key like esc unusable on consoles is quite ugly. >> >> > >It's something between a misdesign and a misconfiguration of the ESC key. > >In other words, many unices make ESC generate ^[, the general >terminal escape character that is _also_ generated by keys like "up", >^[[A. > >MS-DOS, or rather QBASIC's, Turbo BASIC's and other implementation of >keys, does not have this "bug": here ESC generates "\x1B" and "up" >generates "\x00H" IIRC. There is no key defined to generate "\x00". >=> All fits nicely. > >So I see two steps: > > - making ESC generate something else than ^[, or making function > keys do something else > > - fixing the terminfo description and the xterms > > - possibly creating a new termtype ("linux2" or "xterm2") so as to > not tamper with compatibility > >Then text-console graphic applications (ncurses, slang, etc.) would >not need to wait the defined one second for an escape sequence to >complete. > >HOWEVER, unix people probably _had a reason_ to make ESC generate >part of what function keys do. Should my UP key go broke, I could >still - though probably tedious - reproduce it by hitting the three >keys ESC [ A. Problem, as pointed out, is that ESC has long been used >by the majority of people back then for something else than doing >terminal sequences by hand: DOS, apps, games, Windows GUIs, and, >I suppose, even X11. > > > > -`J' > > Hi,
do man ascii - ESC is 0x1b. Thats what the esc key should generate - it sometimes echoed as ^[ because the [ = 0x5b
Steve
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