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author | Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> | 2022-05-09 06:30:28 +0200 |
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committer | Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> | 2022-05-09 06:30:28 +0200 |
commit | 8343c2d5f6f470458bdedc3283d0e9beecb07620 (patch) | |
tree | b14beb10d095e5620db776d6bf38b74537a2cabe | |
parent | 1a215357255004f2757d8d20dc0ecc61d29d93dc (diff) | |
parent | 1d012e0a621f9cf99048f57130144275b9025d1c (diff) | |
download | emacs-8343c2d5f6f470458bdedc3283d0e9beecb07620.tar.gz |
Merge from origin/emacs-28
1d012e0a62 Linux console: don't translate ESC TAB to `backtab' in inp...
-rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 27 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lisp/term/linux.el | 4 |
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 270de600d66..3e0b73a4d59 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1874,6 +1874,33 @@ this, you can remove the X resource or put this in your init file: (xterm-remove-modify-other-keys) +** The shift TAB key combination works as meta TAB on a Linux console. + +This happens because on your keyboard layout, S-TAB produces the same +keycodes as typing ESC TAB individually. The best way to solve this +is to modify your keyboard layout to produce different codes, and tell +Emacs what these new codes mean. + +The current keyboard layout will probably be a .map.gz file somewhere +under /usr/share/keymaps. Identify this file, possibly from a system +initialization file such as /etc/conf.d/keymaps. Run gunzip on it to +decompress it, and amend the entries for keycode 15 to look something +like this: + +keycode 15 = Tab + alt keycode 15 = Meta_Tab + shift keycode 15 = F219 +string F219 = "\033[4}\011" # Shift+<tab> + +After possibly saving this file under a different name, compress it +again using gzip. Amend /etc/conf.d/keyamps, etc., if needed. +Further details can be found in the man page for loadkeys. + +Then add the following line near the start of your site-start.el or +.emacs or init.el file: + +(define-key input-decode-map "\e[4}\t" 'backtab) + ** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen. This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being diff --git a/lisp/term/linux.el b/lisp/term/linux.el index 6d43e477ac9..ab5a6d8698f 100644 --- a/lisp/term/linux.el +++ b/lisp/term/linux.el @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ (ignore-errors (when gpm-mouse-mode (require 't-mouse) (gpm-mouse-enable))) + ;; Don't translate ESC TAB to backtab as directed + ;; by ncurses-6.3. + (define-key input-decode-map "\e\t" nil) + ;; Make Latin-1 input characters work, too. ;; Meta will continue to work, because the kernel ;; turns that into Escape. |