On 08/06/2009 02:39 PM, William Case wrote: > Thanks Tom; > > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:25 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:13:14 -0400 >> William Case wrote: >> >> >>> Is there a tutorial or manual that explains or shows what those modifer >>> codes mean. That is, I know "\e" must mean ESC key but what does the >>> various other codes (e.g. "[1~") mean -- for sure. >>> >> I'm pretty sure it just means those characters literally. The various >> vt100 and greater style terminal emulations most commonly used >> in things like gnome-terminal and xterm all generate escape >> sequence that look like that. >> > You are right -- if I type the those characters literally, the readline > command is performed. > > >> The question then becomes finding out >> which keys generate those escapes (but the odds are good it will >> be the obvious ones like home and end, etc). >> >> > That is the hard part. > > For example: > the literal input of both > "\e[5D": backward-word > "\e[1;5D": backward-word > moves the cursor back one word on the command line. > So does Alt-b (Alt=Meta) > > the literal input of both > "\e[1;5C": forward-word > "\e[5C": forward-word > moves the cursor forward one word on the command line. > > BUT, > Alt-f pops down the File menu in gTerminal > I don't want to override that action. It could be useful in some > circumstances. > > SO; > what keys are equivalent to "\e[1;5C" and/or "\e[5C". I would like to > bind readline keys universally and systematically so that they don't > interfere with other key setups (keymaps ?? such as Gnome has) yet can > be easily remembered from terminal to terminal. > > I could (and probably will) just create some new key bindings but I > thought they should bear some resemblance to the existing binding. > > For those of you who don't have the little booklets we got from DEC, here is a URL for VT100 codes. http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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