[PATCH] Updated terminfo file with more modifiers

Emanuele Giaquinta emanuele.giaquinta at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 09:53:56 CEST 2015


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 06:49:18PM +0200, Sebastian Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:32:55AM +0300, Emanuele Giaquinta wrote:
> > thanks, the patch looks good. BTW, what was the motivation for it? Is
> > there any ncurses app that supports these extended keys?
> 
> tmux does. Actually, there are a lot[1] of guides on the internet that
> recommend overriding the terminal’s terminfo entry in tmux.conf to get
> ctrl+arrow keys working, which looked like the wrong place to me.

Ok I see, thanks.

> > >   According to [5] and [2] these variants are named by appending 5
> > >   (Ctrl) or 6 (Shift+Ctrl) to the shifted key name.
> > 
> > This applies to the xterm modifier encoding only, which is not used by
> > urxvt.
> 
> Hm? The naming applies or the escape sequences apply? I can reproduce
> the escape sequences, at least.

Sorry, I thought that you were talking about the sequences generated by
xterm, while you meant the capability names.

Emanuele



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