From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6f4b2f1a3f091549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!tethys.csu.net!nntp.csufresno.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Thomas Dickey Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Escape Codes Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:00:18 -0000 Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Message-ID: <12uqlui16q0c413@corp.supernews.com> References: <45ec0b23$1@news.post.ch> <_EZGh.20313$u93.17533@attbi_s21> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9717 Date: 2007-03-06T12:00:18+00:00 List-Id: Brian May wrote: >>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey R Carter 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 Also there is this mode (which unfortunately I suspect is obsolete 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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net