Right on, thanks, Micah and Jürgen! I'm really impressed with the quality of responses on this list. What a great community!
Yours fondly, Aleksey On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Micah Cowan <mi...@addictivecode.org> wrote: > 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 > -- Need CFEngine training? Email train...@verticalsysadmin.com
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