On 07/09/2015 02:42 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com>: > >> It makes perfect sense to me that TAB and Ctrl-TAB would generate the >> same keycode, as TAB is itself a control character (Ctrl-I). As the >> Ctrl modifier bit is effectively already set, I don't think you can >> really set it a second time and be able to detect it. > > If you input a character stream, that's the case since the characters > are Unicode code points. AFAIK, Unicode doesn't have Ctrl-TAB as a > separate code point.
Yes and readline works on character streams, not with X11. > > However, X11 key events come with modifiers. Thus, CAPS-A, LeftShift-A, > RightShift-A, CAPS-LeftShift-RightShift-A and the plain A are different > key events (provided the physical keyboard plays along). Not relevant to libreadline, unfortunately. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
