Re: Binding left and right arrow keys

[Dave Wood]

On (23:22 22/12/08), Peder Stray <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Dave Wood wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Yeah, seems it doesn't have special escape sequences for either control 
> og shift + arrow keys.  Not sure if you can define you own sequences 
> there though.

Yes it's strange the codes don't show. But I know that applications have
access to them or screen and emacs wouldn't work at all with default
settings. I will try look into this more perhaps.

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Lysistrata had a good idea.