Package: xterm
Version: 4.2.1-3
Severity: minor
/usr/share/doc/xterm/xterm.terminfo.gz contains
# The terminfo defines some special keys which are documented as "shifted",
# e.g., kDC is shifted-delete-character. In this description, the modifier is
# actually the control key, to avoid conflict with the common usage of shifted
# pageup and pagedown for window manager functions.
#
xterm-xfree86|xterm-new|xterm terminal emulator (XFree86),
npc,
kDC=\E[3;2~,
kEND=\EO2F,
kHOM=\EO2H,
where the funny thing is that "\E[3;2~" is actually what xterm
sends when one presses shift-del, rather than control-del. Control-del
would be \E[3;5~. Similarly for the other shifted capabilities. Thus
the actual terminfo code differs from what the comment claims about it.
Interestingly, the actual terminfo record for xterm in ncurses-base
(5.3.20021109-2) contains, according to infocmp:
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /etc/terminfo/x/xterm
xterm|X11 terminal emulator,
am, bce, km, mc5i, mir, msgr, npc, xenl,
(... blah blah blah ...)
kDC=\E[3;5~, kEND=\EO5F, kHOM=\EO5H, kIC=\E[2;5~,
kLFT=\EO5D, kNXT=\E[6;5~, kPRV=\E[5;5~, kRIT=\EO5C,
(... blah blah blah ...)
which matches the *comment* in the xterm doc file, rather than the
actual *code*.
--
Henning Makholm "Eat the bunnies. Stomp the
hamsters. And boil three mice for gold!"
