Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:37:36 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console |
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Marko Macek wrote: > 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. >
Yes; this probably needs to be modal, but we can probably live with that.
-hpa
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