A 'complete' reference of CTRL key combinations?

A 'complete' reference of CTRL key combinations?

[Richard Hartmann]

Hi all,

I am pondering to map quite a few things to various CTRL-$key
combinations and wonder if there is a reference of which keys should
be considered 'taken' and which are free.

My zshrc is in wide use among friends, coworkers and co-students,
so I want to minimize any impact this might have for advanced users.
Yes, most of them will be able to map away what they don't like, but
as I push updates automatically, this is ackward, creates problems
for people advancing to advanced users (scnr) and is just bad style :)


Thanks,
Richard

Re: A 'complete' reference of CTRL key combinations?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Feb 16,  1:30pm, Richard Hartmann wrote:
} 
} I am pondering to map quite a few things to various CTRL-$key
} combinations and wonder if there is a reference of which keys should
} be considered 'taken' and which are free.

zsh -fic 'bindkey -L'

perhaps?  Similarly

zsh -fic 'bindkey -M viins -L'
zsh -fic 'bindkey -M vicmd -L'

You might want

zsh -fic 'autoload -U compinit; compinit -D; bindkey -L'

to see the keys commonly bound by the completion system as well.

Re: A 'complete' reference of CTRL key combinations?

[Richard Hartmann]

Thanks!

Richard

Re: A 'complete' reference of CTRL key combinations?

[Matt Wozniski]

On Feb 16, 2008 11:21 AM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Feb 16,  1:30pm, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> }
> } I am pondering to map quite a few things to various CTRL-$key
> } combinations and wonder if there is a reference of which keys should
> } be considered 'taken' and which are free.
>
> zsh -fic 'bindkey -L'
>
> perhaps?  Similarly
>
> zsh -fic 'bindkey -M viins -L'
> zsh -fic 'bindkey -M vicmd -L'
>
> You might want
>
> zsh -fic 'autoload -U compinit; compinit -D; bindkey -L'
>
> to see the keys commonly bound by the completion system as well.

Also useful, but for a different reason, is "man 7 ascii", which will
show which control key combinations are indistinguishable from special
keys to the shell, like ctrl-i and tab, ctrl-m and enter, etc.
Wouldn't want to accidentally bind ctrl-m to something, you'd have a
tough time changing it back without an enter key.  ;)

~Matt

Re: A 'complete' reference of CTRL key combinations?

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 16/02/2008, Matt Wozniski <godlygeek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also useful, but for a different reason, is "man 7 ascii", which will
> show which control key combinations are indistinguishable from special
> keys to the shell, like ctrl-i and tab, ctrl-m and enter, etc.
> Wouldn't want to accidentally bind ctrl-m to something, you'd have a
> tough time changing it back without an enter key.  ;)

Actually, you can accept lines with either of alt-a, ctrl-o, ctrl-j,
ctrl-m and alt-x (and possibly more that i haven't thought of :).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Re: A 'complete' reference of CTRL key combinations?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Feb 16,  8:57pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
}
} Actually, you can accept lines with either of alt-a, ctrl-o, ctrl-j,
} ctrl-m and alt-x (and possibly more that i haven't thought of :).

Alt-x ?  For me that invokes execute-named-cmd, which still needs yet
another accept-* at the end.

% bindkey -L | fgrep accept
bindkey "^J" accept-line
bindkey "^M" accept-line
bindkey "^O" accept-line-and-down-history
bindkey "^[A" accept-and-hold
bindkey "^[a" accept-and-hold

In viins/vicmd modes you get only ^J and ^M.