On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Ernest Adrogué <nfdi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was setting some key bindings in emacs and it puzzled me > that some of those bindings worked in emacs-x but not in emacs-nox. > > Then I fired up emacs in a tty, in an X terminal emulator and also a > graphical frame and quoted-insert several key combinations that seem > problematic. This is the result > > | | del | backspace | C-backspace | C-M-space | > |-----------+-------+-----------+-------------+------------------| > | linux tty | ^[[3~ | ^? | ^H | ^[ | > | xfce term | ^[[3~ | ^? | ^? | ^[ (^[ + space) | > | gtk emacs | ^D | ^? | | \200 | > > (I wasn't able to quote-insert C-backspace in gtk emacs, it simply > killed the word before the point.) > > By looking at the table above it can be seen that the xfce terminal > emulator generates a wrong escape sequence when C-backspace is > pressed, which is the same sequence as backspace. (This explains why > this binding didn't work when emacs was running in a terminal > emulator.) The C-M-space sequence is also suspect because it doesn't > match that of the linux tty. Is this a bug in the terminal emulator or > a X.org thing? I don't know. > > Also, it appears that gtk emacs sometimes gets completely different > escape sequences, this I don't understand either.
Do you have ibus installed? (I saw a post on another list a few days ago where ibus was over-riding an emacs key-binding.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sww9qs2J=ljqzt580rx5wug8fw37ckdogcet3qxbj5...@mail.gmail.com
