Alt+function keys and other keys

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Miguel Pérez wrote:

> It does, but they are not recognized. Here's an example of different alt-f1
> sequences I've seen:
>
> Konsole (TERM=konsole), native keyboard ("xterm XFree 4.x.x"): ^[O3P
> xterm (TERM=xterm): ^[[1;3P
> urxvt (TERM=rxvt-unicode): ^[^[[11~
> mlterm (TERM=mlterm): ^[[11;3~
>
> Midnight Commander doesn't recognize any of these. I wonder what kind of
> terminal does it expect (shouldn't it be flexibly detected from TERM?).

terminfo should provide the details (using the convention from xterm,
which encodes 12 function-keys with control-, shift-, alt-modifiers).

The last I noticed, Konsole doesn't _set_ $TERM, but has a keyboard 
setting (analogous to the predefined flavors in xterm for Sun, HP, etc).

>
> ~Miguel
>
>
> 2010/3/11 Thomas Dickey <dickey at his.com>
>
>> 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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