Michal Maruška wrote: > Pierpaolo Righini writes: > >computer too!! Thanks a lot! Indeed what I really needed is the way to > >obtain the code of the various keys. > > > Bart Schaefer writes> > > Hmm, this is a bit of a thorny problem: describe-key-briefly only works > > correctly for keys which are bound to something. For keys that are not > > bound, the search through the key tables stops as soon as it finds that > > the prefix is not bound, without consuming the remaining characters of > > the multi-key sequence. > > > Given this situation, I think the way to know the sequence (sent by a key) is to > look at the configuration of the terminal (emulator), In case your problem is with Xterm, > see the file (in XFree 4.0.2): Or just invoke `cat -v' without arguments and you should be able to see the sequences on the terminal. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de