On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:22:44PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > 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. Does the application use ncurses or the sequences are hardcoded? The xterm terminfo entry should correspond to the default xterm configuration. > 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. Yes, it still is. > new xterm spec > SHIFT+F1 = ^[[1;2S xterm supports four different encodings, please see modifyFunctionKeys description in xterm man page. Number 2 is now the "official" one (the upstream default) and it matches the terminfo entry. For the other terminals imitating xterm you may need to set TERM=gnome or similar. -- Miroslav Lichvar -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
