Some keys are not properly recognized in Konsole/xterm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:08 +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 10:56 -0600, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
>>> and the GNOME terminal developers are saying they won't change
>>> the way the key bindings work because it would break lots of
>>> other stuff.
>>
>> Are they saying anything at all?
>
> The GNOME terminal developers have not responded to my emails about the
> bug report (yet) but some googling revealed the escape sequence problem
> came up before some years ago and they refused to change the behavior
> for the reason that a lot of other programs now depended on the current
> behavior. I don't have a reference handy though.

The bug reports also demonstrate that they don't really understand the 
issue, and have made a few changes to make it more complicated.  (I'm not 
expecting anything productive from upstream unless a new developer takes 
over ;-)

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