Suggestion for terminal package maintainers

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Jun 4 11:53:00 GMT 2009


On 6/4/2009 5:30 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  3 14:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Right.  That's because the space key does not return any other character
>> then 0x20 in the Windows console, regardless of the modifier keys you're
>> pressing.  Same goes for Alt-Space which should ideally return Esc-Space
>> or \240.  Maybe we should really add that while we're at it.
> 
> Let's skip that.  I just made a quick test.  Ctrl-Space for ^@ works fine,
> but Alt-Space probably never will.

Ctrl-Space is the more important one anyway.  Thanks for taking care of 
that.

Ken



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