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Control-modified arrow keys
- From: Charles Davis <davis dot 1 at att dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:26:41 -0500
- Subject: Control-modified arrow keys
Sorry to bother you folks with this. I read several messages in the
archive on the
topic, but am unsure of the bottom line. As I understand it in the CYGWIN
console
(and in apps running under it) Control-modified arrow key combinations
cannot be
distinguished from their unmodified counterparts. The same is true for the
6-Pack
keys. For example, <C-Left> and <left> are indistinguishable: both emit
"\e[D".
(That is what I get when I follow ^V by either of these key combinations at
the console
prompt.) The upshot is that apps like Emacs cannot distinguish between
<C-left>
and <left>, say.
The messages in the archive also seemed to suggest that there is no way to
coerce
either Windows or CYGWIN to remap these distinct key combinations (which
have distinct
SCANCODES) to distinct escape sequences.
RXVT is not an option.
Did I miss a ray of hope?
Thanks,
Charles Davis
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