Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console

[H. Peter Anvin]

Marko Macek wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > One would also like to distinguish, say, Backspace from Ctrl-H.  This 
> > is trickier, because the termios settings don't permit compound keys.  
> > The most obvious way to deal with that is an escape code for Ctrl-H, 
> > but that has the risk of breaking a lot of other things.
>
> Backspace is not a problem, since it generates ^? (DEL/127) on Linux 
> since the early days.
>
> It would be really nice to be able get arbitrary modifier combinations 
> for all keys and a separate combination for the escape key.

Yes; this probably needs to be modal, but we can probably live with that.

	-hpa
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