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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:47:03 +0200
From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
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Subject: Re: mintty and Control-` , Control-~
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Am 20.04.2013 22:53, schrieb Andy Koppe:
> On 20 April 2013 21:28, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> In order to make them useful without enabling modifyOtherKeys mode,
>>> how about if Ctrl combinations with backtick (ASCII 0x60), opening and
>>> closing brace (0x7B and 0x7D), pipe (0x7C), and tilde (0x7E) were
>>> mapped to C1 control characters (in the U+0080 to U+009E range).
>> I don't think it's useful to support C1 control characters because virtually
>> nobody will ever want to input them via keyboard;
> I don't know of applications that need those by default either; the
> point is to make such key combinations available for custom mappings
> in places such as ~/.inputrc and ~/.vimrc.
Ah, yes. Maybe a hint in the Keycodes description might encourage such a 
use case.
>
>> even more if only a random subset of C1 can be supported this is only
>> confusing.
> The entire set is supported already. See
> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Keycodes#Ctrl.
Ah, again. However, a custom mapping as mentioned might want to 
distinguish all keys,
so still I wouldn't map Control-~ and -` to already mapped ones.
Maybe extend the "Number and symbol keys" scheme, or use the 
modifyOtherKeys sequences here by default?

Thomas

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