Re: more key bindings for xterm

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > >> > In what xterm did you test these?  I remember vaguely that I tried in
  > >> > the past to add more bindings to xterm.el, but abandoned the idea
  > >> > after I discovered that different flavors of Unix had xterm's that
  > >> > used incompatible bindings.
  > >> 
  > >> Luckily, tho the bindings are sometimes different, they rarely conflict.
  > 
  > > I'm not sure.  I think, at the time, I did find conflicts.
  > 
  > We can deal with them when we find them.  As I said, those bindings are
  > "weak" and overridden by anything, so they can't be much worse than no
  > binding at all.

Actually, it seems that when I was testing this patch I had an
incomplete terminfo entry in ~/.terminfo that seems to be picked up by
default on GNU/Linux (without setting the TERMINFO environment
variable). This affects all the mappings involving the F1-12 keys.
(the strings are correct, but the keys don't work as expected).

It seems that any MODIFIER-F_KEY emits a string that is defined in one
terminfo entry kf13->kf63. So given that key definitions in xterm.el
don't have priority Emacs does not see them and it reports an
undefined key. For example for C-f5 it says "<f29> undefined". 

I am not sure what is the best way to deal with these key bindings. 

The rest of the bindings in the patch work.

         --dan