Re: Emacs keybinding of Ctrl-[
Hi Havoc,
> > And there is no way to separate ESC and C-[ ?
> > I mean, who uses C-[ to get an ESC??
>
> Text terminals do. But there's a way around it - from the Emacs manual's
> discussion of keybindings (which you may find interesting, btw):
Hm, I couldn't find this in the manual. Maybe that's because I am
using Xemacs, not Emacs?
> <TAB>, <RET>, <BS>, <LFD>, <ESC> and <DEL> started out as names for
> certain ASCII control characters, used so often that they have special
> keys of their own. Later, users found it convenient to distinguish in
> Emacs between these keys and the "same" control characters typed with
> the <CTRL> key.
Just like me.
> If you do not want to distinguish between (for example) <TAB> and
> `C-i', make just one binding, for the ASCII character <TAB> (octal code
> 011). If you do want to distinguish, make one binding for this ASCII
> character, and another for the "function key" `tab'.
Doesn't that say, that binding C-[ should work? But this line:
(define-key global-map [(control \[)] [udiaeresis])
does not have any effect. :-(
Maybe I just didn't understand it.
> Xmodmap is cryptic. I've had good luck with Xkeycaps, since it's otherwise
> impossible to remember the syntax.
That's right! In the meantime I managed to turn my capslock key into
a "super" key. I could then map like this:
(define-key global-map [(super \[)] [udiaeresis])
Unfortunately I can only use that key when in emacs. I can't find how
to make use of it in the shell, an xterm etc.
Thanks anyway for your help!
Andy.
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