Re: C-<digit> key bindings not working on console

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> One would be tempted to think that if Emacs knows how to deal with C-
>> and M- and S- as modifiers alone or in some combinations it should be
>> able to deal with them always.
>
> The byte sequences used for various key-combos in a text-terminal have
> evolved in an "organic" way over the years, starting from plain ASCII
> (which already includes 32 "key combined with CTRL") but without ever
> someone coming and saying "OK, let's scrap this mess and use a regular
> encoding".

So the 'organic mess' is itself a bit complicated, and not only hard to
understand. 

> IOW, C-M-v is not sent as "the encoding of CTRL plus the encoding of
> META plus the encoding of `v'", so there's no natural generalization for
> C-M-V.

I see, explains some surprising behaviour

> And of course, it's not even clear whether C-M-V should be the same as
> C-M-S-v or C-M-v (Emacs decided C-M-V is the same as C-M-v, which are
> different from C-M-S-v).  After all, it's not clear if ASCII code
> 1 should be considered as C-a or C-A or both (Emacs considers C-a is
> equal to C-A, which is different from C-S-a).

How can you produce C-M-V without typing C-M-S-v (at least on a German
QWERTZ keyboard its the only way I can see)?

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten