Alt+function keys and other keys

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Miguel Pérez wrote:

> What I wonder is why even on the reference terminal xterm, some key escape
> sequences aren't even recognized, including simple enough ones such as
> ctrl-f1 or alt-f1.

It depends on the keyboard configuration.  (The "vt220" flavor won't do 
much with control/F1).  The (default) Sun/PC does send different 
sequences...

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