Re: terminal keys

["Sebastian P. Luque" <spluque@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:29:24 -0500,
Carson Chittom <carson.chittom@mspb.ms.gov> wrote:

> "Sebastian P. Luque" <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
>> While using Gnus at a console (Konsole, from KDE in my case), some
>> key combinations don't work as in an X environment.  For example,
>> 'C-M-k' (gnus-summary-kill-thread), i.e. holding Control, Alt, and k
>> together doesn't do anything.  However, hitting ESC, and then Control
>> k does call `gnus-summary-kill-thread'.  This should probably be
>> asked in some KDE forum, since this is probably configured somewhere
>> in KDE's system settings, but perhaps someone here has already dealt
>> with this.

> Sounds like Konsole isn't properly interpreting Meta/Alt.  At a guess,
> maybe TERM isn't set properly.  Does Meta/Alt work right in other
> console applications?

Well Meta/Alt at either side of the keyboard do work properly, since for
example 'M-q' does call `fill-paragraph'.  It's just the combination of
Meta/Alt with Control that is not recognized as input of any kind.

I found that under Konsole's profile settings, there's an "Input" tab,
with 3 different options: Default (XFree 4), Linux console, Solaris
console.  These can be edited, and the user is shown with columns "Key
Combination" and "Output" with several rows of entries.  Hopefully the
language used to edit these is described somewhere.  For example,
"Backspace" under "Key Combination" has "\x7f" under "Output"...


> What does "echo $TERM" return?

This shows "xterm"

> Does something in your termcap file (/etc/termcap on my OpenBSD
> install) have something more suited to your situation than what TERM
> is set to?

In my Debian sid system this seems to be large hierarchy under
/usr/share/terminfo, which I'd need to understand.


> Alternatively, maybe you have crumbs stuck under your Meta/Alt key
> (true story; happened to me).

;-)

Thanks,

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Seb