Re: Ctrl+Ret in Terminals

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:27:12PM +0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:46:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > "Enter" ("carriage return") _is_ a control character.  A pc keyboard sends
> > keycodes which Emacs under X can intercept and decipher, allowing it to
> > distinguish "Enter" from "Cntrl+Enter".  A terminal, however, sends ASCII
> > codes.  Pressing the "control" key sets the control bit.  "Enter", being a
> > control character, already has it set.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> Kumar

Interestingly, this mail is a copy of the one sent by me on June
30th. It's _not_ me who sent this copy, though, since the headers
idicate that it's The Bat, which makes me suspicious...

Kumar