8 bits codes instead of ESC sequences...

Zsbán Ambrus ambrus at math.bme.hu
Wed Jul 9 09:58:21 CEST 2014


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Patrick Serru <patrik at serru.net> wrote:
>     I was hoping to receive a single 8-bit character at the pressing of
> a "control" key (as 'up arrow' for example), but "URxvt.meta8: true" seems to
> have nothing to do with that, I always get a sequence of characters starting
> with "\x1B". I assume and hope that this possibility exists. If so, how to
> control it.

Urxvt does not do that.  If you want to get a single event from such a
keypress, you will have to use a library on the client side, such as
ncurses or libtermkey or some other library.

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Ambrus




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