On 12 Feb 2017, at 23:54 , Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I still don't understand why the terminal treats keypress Ctrl+4 the > same as Ctrl+\, but at least I'm not alone; > https://catern.com/posts/terminal_quirks.html#fn.3. I would guess that this was just to get certain escape chars within reach on non-US keyboard layouts, e.g. the [\] characters are replaced by some permutation of the three extra letters in Scandinavian languages (as Henrik surely knows all about). So the awkward ones were reassigned/duplicated at Ctrl-2 -- Ctrl-8. On, say, a current Mac Terminal.app, Ctrl-\ should be Ctrl-Shift-Alt-7, but that key combination actually just generates "7". I also recall terminals where some characters could only be obtained via compose sequences, e.g. compose-/-/ for "\", and there was no obvious way to add a Ctrl modifier to that. -pd -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
