Re: Escape Codes

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey R Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

>     Jeffrey> Why not write a little program and compile your own list?

> Just run cat, and push the function key. On my system F1 comes out at
> "^[OP". Replace ^[ with escape.

> Just be warned that there are different standards. xterm might be
> different to console, different xterms might be different, etc (at
> least they were in Linux last I tried).

> Also there is this mode (which unfortunately I suspect is obsolete
> because it breaks UTF-8 compatibility), copied from the xterm man
> page:

Not exactly - some users have keyboards that provide 8-bit characters
without having to use the meta-modifier as a shift key.  So eightBitInput
is still in use - just not for the original reason.

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