Re: Interrpreting modifier codes in /etc/inputrc ??

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On 08/06/2009 02:39 PM, William Case wrote:
> Thanks Tom;
>
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:25 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:13:14 -0400
>> William Case wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Is there a tutorial or manual that explains or shows what those modifer
>>> codes mean.  That is, I know "\e" must mean ESC key but what does the
>>> various other codes (e.g. "[1~") mean -- for sure. 
>>>       
>> I'm pretty sure it just means those characters literally. The various
>> vt100 and greater style terminal emulations most commonly used
>> in things like gnome-terminal and xterm all generate escape
>> sequence that look like that. 
>>     
> You are right -- if I type the those characters literally, the readline
> command is performed.
>
>   
>> The question then becomes finding out
>> which keys generate those escapes (but the odds are good it will
>> be the obvious ones like home and end, etc).
>>
>>     
> That is the hard part.
>
> For example: 
> the literal input of both
> "\e[5D": backward-word
> "\e[1;5D": backward-word
> moves the cursor back one word on the command line.
> So does Alt-b (Alt=Meta)
>
> the literal input of both
> "\e[1;5C": forward-word
> "\e[5C": forward-word
> moves the cursor forward one word on the command line.
>
> BUT,
> Alt-f pops down the File menu in gTerminal
> I don't want to override that action.  It could be useful in some
> circumstances.
>
> SO;
> what keys are equivalent to "\e[1;5C" and/or "\e[5C".  I would like to
> bind readline keys universally and systematically so that they don't
> interfere with other key setups (keymaps ?? such as Gnome has) yet can
> be easily remembered from terminal to terminal.
>
> I could (and probably will) just create some new key bindings but I
> thought they should bear some resemblance to the existing binding.
>
>   
For those of you who don't have the little booklets we got from DEC,
here is a URL for VT100 codes. http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm


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