Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:46:19 +0200 | From | Marko Macek <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> One would also like to distinguish, say, Backspace from Ctrl-H. This is > trickier, because the termios settings don't permit compound keys. The > most obvious way to deal with that is an escape code for Ctrl-H, but > that has the risk of breaking a lot of other things.
Backspace is not a problem, since it generates ^? (DEL/127) on Linux since the early days.
It would be really nice to be able get arbitrary modifier combinations for all keys and a separate combination for the escape key.
Mark
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