Over the past three years, I have yet to know what is the "official" xterm spec. Everyone seems to follow whatever they want. Some history: I use a home-grown application that is exclusively terminal-based. It relies on SHIFT+Fn for certain functionality following the "official" xterm spec. Sometime back in Fedora 7 (yep, 2 years ago) the vte library decided to fix a "bug"[1] with the escape sequences with CTRL+Arrow keys. This change caused SHIFT+F1 through SHIFT+F4 to emit the wrong xterm sequences. Example: xterm spec[2] SHIFT+F4 = ^[O2S vte-based terminal (gnome-terminal, Terminal, etc.) SHIFT+F4 = ^[O1;2S Needless to say, my app wouldn't function correctly. With Fedora 11, a new ncurses-base package has brought new xterm specs! I didn't know xterm was still in pro-active development. new xterm spec SHIFT+F1 = ^[[1;2S I realize most people won't see this because it seems rare for apps to need SHIFT+Fn, but it's a two year old problem fixing to become a three year old problem. I'd like to squash these spec differences once and for all. My bug[3] reports[4] that include solutions have gone unheeded. Now it seems that the "official" spec[2] page is messed up. It used to show that ^[O2S was the correct sequence for SHIFT+F4, but the images are distorted. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337252 [2] http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249573 [4] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540179 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
