Hi all (mostly Andy),
I notice that mintty 1.1 handles certain key combinations differently
than xterm:
ctrl+enter produces 0x1e (RS) vs. CR in xterm
alt+enter produces ESC CR vs. nothing at all in xterm
ctrl+shift+<letter> emits the unicode C2 control codepoints (0xc281
through 0xc29a); xterm emits the C0 control value as if shift were
unpressed.
So, two questions:
1. Is there a particular reason for this behavior? Perhaps rxvt or some
other non-xterm terminal emulator does it?
2. Is there documentation somewhere of what convention mintty follows
for the various special cases?
(these questions are partly triggered by frustration at shift+enter not
working, which lead to me finding a reasonably sane proposal to fix
these kinds of terminal woes [1]; I was surprised to find that mintty
can already distinguish some key presses that xterm can't)
[1] www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/fixterms/
Thanks,
Ryan
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