Re: read a reply from the terminal

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > I trying to do: (send-string-to-terminal "\e[>0c") and read the string
  > > that the terminal sends back.  Can this be done reliably in elisp?
  > 
  > Something like
  > 
  >           (let ((coding-system-for-read 'binary))
  >             (read-event ...))
  > 
  > should give you what you want,

Thanks, that seems to do it. 

Here's a patch. It works for me correctly for all the terminals that I
tried it on. 

Any objection to putting this in? 

*** xterm.el    13 Jun 2007 16:19:48 -0700      1.39
--- xterm.el    14 Jul 2007 17:06:05 -0700      
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*** 400,406 ****
      ;; Do it!
      (xterm-register-default-colors)
      ;; This recomputes all the default faces given the colors we've just set 
up.
!     (tty-set-up-initial-frame-faces)))
  
  ;; Set up colors, for those versions of xterm that support it.
  (defvar xterm-standard-colors
--- 400,436 ----
      ;; Do it!
      (xterm-register-default-colors)
      ;; This recomputes all the default faces given the colors we've just set 
up.
!     (tty-set-up-initial-frame-faces)
! 
!     ;; Try to turn on the modifyOtherKeys feature on modern xterms.
!     ;; When it is turned on much more key bindings work: things like
!     ;; C-. C-, etc.
!     ;; To do that we need to find out if the current terminal supports
!     ;; modifyOtherKeys. At this time only xterm does.
!     (let ((coding-system-for-read 'binary)
!         (chr nil)
!         (str nil))
!       ;; Try to find out the type of terminal by sending a "Secondary
!       ;; Device Attributes (DA)" query.
!       (send-string-to-terminal "\e[>0c")
! 
!       ;; The reply should be of the form: \e [ > NUMBER1 ; NUMBER2 ; NUMBER3 c
!       (when (equal (read-event) ?\e)
!       (when (equal (read-event) 91)
!         (while (not (equal (setq chr (read-event)) ?c))
!           (setq str (concat str (string chr))))
!         (when (string-match ">[0-9]+;\\([0-9]+\\);[0-9]+" str)
!           ;; NUMBER2 is the xterm version number, look for something
!           ;; greater than 216, the version when modifyOtherKeys was
!           ;; introduced.
!           (when (>= (string-to-number 
!                      (substring str (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))) 216)
!             ;; Make sure that the modifyOtherKeys state is restored when
!             ;; suspending, resuming and exiting.
!             (add-hook 'suspend-hook 'xterm-turn-off-modifyOtherKeys)
!             (add-hook 'suspend-resume-hook 'xterm-turn-on-modifyOtherKeys)
!             (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook 'xterm-turn-off-modifyOtherKeys)
!             (xterm-turn-on-modifyOtherKeys))))))))
  
  ;; Set up colors, for those versions of xterm that support it.
  (defvar xterm-standard-colors
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*** 518,522 ****
--- 548,560 ----
      ;; right colors, so clear them.
      (clear-face-cache)))
  
+ (defun xterm-turn-on-modifyOtherKeys ()
+   "Turn on the modifyOtherKeys feature of xterm."
+   (send-string-to-terminal "\e[>4;1m"))
+ 
+ (defun xterm-turn-off-modifyOtherKeys ()
+   "Turn off the modifyOtherKeys feature of xterm."
+   (send-string-to-terminal "\e[>4m"))
+ 
  ;; arch-tag: 12e7ebdd-1e6c-4b25-b0f9-35ace25e855a
  ;;; xterm.el ends here