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Re: emulating function keys in demo programs
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Alexei Podtelezhnikov |
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Re: emulating function keys in demo programs |
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Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:34:42 -0400 |
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 2:11 PM Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
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> >> > I don't think it is possible because grKeyF5 is 0x105, which
> >> > would be wchar_t. It is either that or rethink and harmonize
> >> > control keys more carefully.
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> >> Could you invent something? Being able to insert functions keys
> >> would be quite useful...
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> > We can map them onto printable 0xC1 through 0xCC and you will have
> > to paste them into the command line.
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> This would be quite ugly...
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> What about using, say, `|` as a delimiter to enter strings?
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> ab|F5|cde
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> If necessary, character `|` could be entered as `||`.
We need something that is not a pipe command. Bash would except
ab$'\xF2'cde
This looks ok to me and does not require parsing. We only need to
remap them from 0xF1 through 0xFC.
Agreed?