From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753510AbYDFIqn (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 04:46:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751275AbYDFIqe (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 04:46:34 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:34495 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751141AbYDFIqe (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 04:46:34 -0400 X-Authenticated: #420190 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18+7BsY59w+XP9vm/JboSc0sUqIAKVxaXauDJZRxr PC+qOxhGbglbAs Message-ID: <47F88DDB.30409@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:46:19 +0200 From: Marko Macek User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Jan Engelhardt , "John T." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console References: <205509.99433.qm@web45710.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <47ED7EBD.8070009@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <47ED7EBD.8070009@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > One would also like to distinguish, say, Backspace from Ctrl-H. This is > trickier, because the termios settings don't permit compound keys. The > most obvious way to deal with that is an escape code for Ctrl-H, but > that has the risk of breaking a lot of other things. Backspace is not a problem, since it generates ^? (DEL/127) on Linux since the early days. It would be really nice to be able get arbitrary modifier combinations for all keys and a separate combination for the escape key. Mark