Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key
Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key
- Subject: Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key
- From: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:35:15 -0500
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- Organization: Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computing Facilities
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On 12/31/10 18:02 , Ambrose LI wrote:
> I can't see how this is a meta-vs-ISO8859-1 issue. It was because in
> old text-type terminals, this (setting the 8th bit) was just how the
> Meta key used to work. In the old days ISO8859-1 was not even the
> standard.
That was, in fact, my point; what you're describing sounds like an incorrect
memory of the meta-as-command-shift-vs-international-charsets isue. which
often got misreported and confused with the question of what if anything
various keys should do (including "meta sends esc" silliness).
And part of *that* point is that there were never all that many conventions
that made enormous amounts of sense because about the only keyboards that
supported enough modifiers were whatever MIT was using (Lisp Machines?);
older Macs lacked "control", older Suns lacked "alt", and everyone else
lacked "command/meta", so it was always a battle to determine what the
available modifiers did.
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brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] email@hidden
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] email@hidden
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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| | >xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: "James K. Lowden" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Richard Cobbe <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Ambrose LI <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: xmodmap, readline, and ye olde meta key (From: Ambrose LI <email@hidden>) |