Re: Available keys. Was: Re: [Nano-devel] Re: A suggestion - set and goto mark

[David Lawrence Ramsey]

John M. Gabriele wrote:

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> Hm. I just realized... I left out those keys above the number keys...
> I know there's no difference between ^e and ^E, but it slipped my mind
> that the numbers may be recognized differently from the symbols above
> them (i.e. ^1 vs. ^!, ^2 vs. ^@, and so on,

Only Ctrl-@ and Ctrl-^ are recognized, so you didn't miss much.

> and same with the Meta's: M-3 vs. M-#,..). Can nano tell the
> difference between M-4 and M-$?

Certainly.  Pressing Meta-<key> is the same as pressing Escape and then
<key>; meta keys aren't built into ASCII the way control keys are.

> Also, thank you for the detailed reply re. those various keys. I need
> to chew on that for a bit and also maybe try to put it into the faq
> unless someone beats me to it...

No problem.