From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@cs.utk.edu>
To: "Matthias B." <msb@winterdrache.de>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: bindkey -v and alt-. for previous cmd arg
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:33:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041104143342.GA15150@red-hots.cs.utk.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041104152010.61207970@buddha.localdomain.de>
Matthias B. sent me the following 0.9K bytes:
> > Yes! And from my recent reading I see that if you bind a key to Esc
> > using \e it will be mapped to alt as well.
>
> No, that's not how it works. It's just that in some terminals (the Linux
> console for example, at least with some keymaps) Alt-. produces ESC-.
> But this is by no means standard. In my Xterm, when I press Alt-. I get
> the (R) registered trademark sign and if I want to bind something to Alt-.
> I have to bind it to (R) to work in Xterm. The simplest way to find out
> what to bind against is to execute
>
> cat
>
> and then press the key combo in question and look at what you see on
> screen. On the linux console I get this (with Alt-.)
You can also do this at the command line by hitting <Control-v> and then
pressing the key in question. That'll save you a process!
--
Chris Johnson
cjohnson@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cjohnson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-04 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 12:48 Nick Croft
2004-11-03 13:53 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 19:44 ` Nick Croft
2004-11-03 19:57 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 20:01 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 11:43 ` Nick Croft
2004-11-04 12:03 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 12:16 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-11-04 14:20 ` Matthias B.
2004-11-04 14:33 ` Chris Johnson [this message]
2004-11-04 19:43 ` Nick Croft
2004-11-07 11:53 ` Nick Croft
2004-11-07 13:29 ` Matthias B.
2004-11-09 11:18 ` Nick Croft
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