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Subject: Re: mintty and Control-` , Control-~
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 20 April 2013 21:28, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> In order to make them useful without enabling modifyOtherKeys mode,
>> how about if Ctrl combinations with backtick (ASCII 0x60), opening and
>> closing brace (0x7B and 0x7D), pipe (0x7C), and tilde (0x7E) were
>> mapped to C1 control characters (in the U+0080 to U+009E range).
>
> I don't think it's useful to support C1 control characters because virtually
> nobody will ever want to input them via keyboard;

I don't know of applications that need those by default either; the
point is to make such key combinations available for custom mappings
in places such as ~/.inputrc and ~/.vimrc.

> even more if only a random subset of C1 can be supported this is only
> confusing.

The entire set is supported already. See
http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Keycodes#Ctrl.

Andy

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