keycodes (was: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc.)

[Matt Wozniski]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Speaking of history, does anyone know why xterm and rxvt diverged so much on
> modifier keycodes and why the xterm codes ended up being six characters
> long?

Because rxvt failed to adhere to the relevant standards[1].

[1] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-048.htm

~Matt

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