On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> sam(1) says ``Text may be typed and edited as in rio(1);
> also the escape key (ESC) selects (sets dot to) text typed
> since the last mouse button hit.''
>
> rio(1) has a subsection titled ``Text windows.''
>

This subsection is in 9term(1) in plan9port. Thanks, I hadn't seen it!


>
> Ctrl-0 isn't a real control sequence (if you look at the output
> of "ascii", the valid control characters are A through _).
> What byte are you trying to type?
>

I'm trying to map some simple operations to control-sequences, like jumping
to the command win, flipping between buffers, and so on. I guess I'll have
to do with A.._ chars, avoiding the ones already taken (ctrl-a, ctrl-u,
ctrl-w, etc)


>
> You cannot detect the press of the Alt key - the
> kernel does that as part of its keyboard handling.
>
> Russ
>
>
This is unfortunate.

Thank you very much,
L.