Resending; meant to send this to the list, not privately. On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Lovely, thank you very much Axel and Pieter! > > Why does pressing ctrl-1 make 1, and pressing ctrl-3 make ^[ ? Pressing > ctrl-8 makes nothing, like Pieter said (you can't shift 042 down by 64).
The basic answer here is that, outside of the ASCII entries from 0x40 - 0x5F, and their lower-case equivalents, and a few pretty ubiquitous exceptions, there's not a lot of consistency as to which characters might also generate a character in the control range, and if so, what character might be generated. You may find this previous email of mine on the subject of "what does control do", helpful: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2015-08/msg00005.html Also note that, outside of the terminal context - in for example an X Window context, control key combinations really are represented as "adding" information to the keypress you type. There's no mutation of the key code there - it's only that way in terminals, for historical reasons. -mjc _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
