From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80345 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sebastian P. Luque" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: terminal keys Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:01:05 -0500 Organization: University of Manitoba Message-ID: <874nz7wo1a.fsf@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org> References: <87botfwq92.fsf@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org> <4p1uubh997.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318870898 22324 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2011 17:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:01:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@lists.math.uh.edu Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28633@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 17 19:01:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RFqZB-0003FD-95 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:01:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RFqYs-0000zI-Nz; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:01:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RFqYq-0000z4-PM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca ([24.71.223.10]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RFqYp-0004ej-8e for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from pd4ml1so-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.141.141]) by pd3mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 17 Oct 2011 11:01:06 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=sOeZmqKXo9QeAvPHcA4bYEQFU2ce9l+aXDqfA8Y5Yr0= c=1 sm=1 a=F0HhOJWMmYsA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=FbSf0JuI1ZC6xDWnnA8m1g==:17 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=N9mcVGXgCdHYHdn61TwA:9 a=pq6wNvXQD3fE2ZItTicA:7 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org) ([50.71.39.227]) by pd4ml1so-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 17 Oct 2011 11:01:06 -0600 Mail-Followup-To: ding@lists.math.uh.edu In-Reply-To: <4p1uubh997.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> (Carson Chittom's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:29:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80345 Archived-At: On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:29:24 -0500, Carson Chittom wrote: > "Sebastian P. Luque" 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, -- Seb