Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/20/12:53:30
Cavaet for non-cygwin users: Keep in mind that the C-V
will only work with ANSI escape sequences (which
Cygwin produces in its "command line" windows. C-V will
not work for all terminals (or their emulators) -
especially VT52, Hazeltine, ...
Most MS-Windows users can ignore the above warning.
--Bruce
PS: 'od -c' merely outputs the "character" equivalents
of its input. So, pressing the Home key, followed by C-d
(control-d) after entering the 'od -c' command will result
in something like:
0000000 033 [ 1 ~ \n
Telling you that "Escape" (033) "[" "1" "~" "newline"
was entered. But you probably already knew that.
Quoting "Lee D. Rothstein" <lee AT veritech DOT com>:
> John, thanks for the <C-V> heads up! Others had
> suggested, variations of 'cat < foo' and 'od -c'. (The
> former I got to work, the latter remains a mystery.)
> Your solution, besides being the most straight-forward,
> is also a great tool to have around. Apparently, it's a
> feature of Cygwin, or 'bash', since it doesn't work in
> a naked 'cmd.exe' window. I'll be sure to add it to my
> documentation.
>
> Unfortunately the key combos I'm trying to map to
> are: <^-->> and <^-<-> (control- and the right and left
> arrow keys). It turns out that the character string
> outputs for both the:
>
> * naked key
> * shift - and the naked key
> * control- and the naked key
>
> are all the same.
>
> Actually, I no longer consider these to be KIDs; these
> are the character string graphemic outputs of hitting
> the key. I'll continue to reserve "KIDs" for when one
> represents these [and the key isomorphisms]
> with '/e...', 'C-...', etc. "notation".
>
> Apparently (?), the only way to discriminate among these
> three alternatives is with Scan Codes. Apparently, all
> the -x-ish stuff I've used (Microemacs, Thompson shell
> command line editing) that can discriminate among the
> three alternatives all use Scan Codes (?).
>
> - Any way to map to Scan Codes to 'bash' 'readline'
> functions under Cygwin?
> + Or to key "names" like: '<CTRL-left-arrow>',
> '<CTRL-HOME>'
> - Any interest among Cygwin developers in adding
> this?
>
> >At 2003-02-19 08:02 AM -0800, John Mapole wrote:
> ...
> >You can build your own KID table. Once at the cygwin
> >prompt you can type <C-V>, that's control-V, followed
> >by the key. On my machine, if I type <C-V><INSERT>, I
> >see "^[[2~". This is the same as "\e[2~".
> >
> >Why these mapping are like this relates to how windows
> >maps them and then how cygwin maps them. Something I
> >am now very clear on.
> >
> >Hope this helps some.
> >
> >John Mapoles
> >
> >--- "Lee D. Rothstein" <lee AT veritech DOT com> wrote:
> ...
> >> Q1 -- When you remap a 'bash' Edit Mode function in
> >> .inputrc, it looks like this:
> >>
> >> "\e[3~": delete-char # DEL key
> >>
> >> The entity in double quotes ("\e[3~"), I'm calling
> >> the "key ID (KID)". In the above '.inputrc' declaration,
> >> the function 'delete-char' being remapped from its
> >> default key assignment to the KID -- "\e[3~" -- the
> >> <DEL> key.
> >>
> >> What are the KIDs of the following IBM PC keys
> >> (specified below with facsimiles of the key caps
> >> contained in angle brackets -- '<...>')?
> >>
> >> Cursor control key pad
> >> ----------------------
> >> <HOME>
> >> <END>
> >> <left-arrow>
> >> <right-arrow>
> >> <PAGE_UP>
> >> <PAGE_DOWN>
> >> <INSERT>
> >>
> >> Numeric pad
> >> -----------
> >> <->
> >> <+>
> >> <ENTER>
> >> </>
>
> I should have included in the above lists, all variations
> of the above with the control, alt and shift keys.
>
> >> In general, I'd like a table that maps the KIDs for all
> >> 104 keys on the keyboard I use. Or, better still, is
> >> there a way to use scan codes?
> >>
> >> (Incidentally, what makes finding a table of these
> >> KIDs so difficult is the failure of the documentation
> >> to assign this concept a unique, or even a consistent
> >> word.)
> >>
> >> Q2
> >> --
> >>
> >> Is there a way to make the <INSERT> key a toggle
> >> between the insert and overwrite modes of 'bash'
> >> edit mode?
> >>
> >> I used to have these figured out for 'Microemacs',
> >> but that was half a lifetime ago, for me, & Microemacs
> >> supported scan codes, if I remember correctly.
>
> --
> Lee D. Rothstein -- lee AT veritech DOT com
> VeriTech -- 603-424-2900
> 7 Merry Meeting Drive
> Merrimack, NH 03054-2934
>
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