Re: Binding left and right arrow keys

[Dave Wood]

On (12:56 22/12/08), Peder Stray <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Dave Wood wrote:
>
> > > > Your codes don't seem to be working. How did you find the codes? Is 
> > > > there a lookup table somewhere on the www? I think control codes  
> > > > depend on the terminal in use.
> > >
> > > i used cat, just started it, and pressed the key i wanted the code 
> > > for, like this (after pressing C-left and C-right):
> > >
> > > > cat
> > > ^[[1;5D^[[1;5C
> > >
> > > ^[ is of cource \033.
> >
> > When I do that it shows ^[[D and makes no difference if I am pressing  
> > control or not. This probably explains why it doesn't work for me. But, 
> > it must be reading control somewhere or C-a wouldn't work...
>
> All Ctrl-A to Z are the single ascii characters from \001 and up, so they 
> always come through, but all other combinations are usually some escape  
> sequence.  It's probably your terminal emulator that hasn't got any 
> escape sequence for C-left or C-right then.  Which termial do you use?

I'm using plain linux terminal (no X).

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