Re: [Tlf-devel] Improved keyboard handling

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2016 04 Jan 13:03 -0600, Pierre Fogal wrote:
> Hi Nate,

Hi Pierre.

> Attached is the output from Konsole (KDE terminal) running under Mate on
> Arch.
> 
> If key combos don't show, they are mapped to something.  And I discovered a
> few mappings that, er, surprised me!

Indeed!  I kind of presumed (wrongly as it turns out) that there was
quite a bit of similarity between terminals.

> For some combinations there are notes enclosed in ( ) to the right of the
> new-onechar output.

At this time I think we're going to have to avoid Alt-F1-F12 and
Ctl-F1-F12 as they are quite often captured by the various desktops and
even the Linux console (Alt-F keys).  The Shift-F1-12 keys seem safe
although Tlf doesn't currently use them but the original onechar
function does look for them so I carried that through.

Depending on the terminal Alt-0 to Alt-9 may not be available.  In Xfce
Terminal with multiple tabs Alt-1 will jump to the left most tab, Alt-2
to the one to the right of that and so on.  A quick work-around was a
new tabless Xfce Terminal window and then those keys were passed through
to the program.  These sorts of issues are more a matter of
documentation on our part than coding.

73, Nate

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