No this is a fine way to do it.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 09:58:36AM -0800, Michael Sheldon wrote: > Hello tmux-users, > I'm trying to figure out how to get emacs to see the shift-arrow keys when > run under tmux. I think I have a good solution for this, but I don't see > it documented in any of the FAQs, so I wanted to run it by this list to > see if there are any gotchas. > Problem: emacs doesn't understand shift-arrow keys even though I enabled > xterm-keys under tmux. > I think the root cause is that the standard screen- based TERM definitions > do not document these escape codes. > I've built a custom .terminfo file containing: > > # A screen- based TERMINFO that declares the escape sequences > # enabled by the tmux config "set-window-option -g xterm-keys". > # > # We prefix the name with xterm- since some applications inspect > # the TERM *name* in addition to the terminal capabilities advertised. > xterm-screen-256color|GNU Screen with 256 colors bce and tmux > xterm-keys, > # As of Nov'11, the below keys are picked up by > # .../tmux/blob/master/trunk/xterm-keys.c: > kDC=\E[3;2~, kEND=\E[1;2F, kHOM=\E[1;2H, > kIC=\E[2;2~, kLFT=\E[1;2D, kNXT=\E[6;2~, kPRV=\E[5;2~, > kRIT=\E[1;2C, > # We run tmux under xterm, which supports bce. > # So use screen-256color-bce as our base. > use=screen-256color-bce, > > and build this with tic. I can now use this in my .tmux.conf: > > set -g default-terminal "xterm-screen-256color" > > And now emacs behaves basically the same when run within tmux as it does > when run in my xterm terminals. > I'm curious why this isn't documented in the FAQ? Is there some down-side > to using this technique to make emacs happy?* > Thanks for your thoughts, > --Michael Sheldon > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
