Re: linux console limitations

[Daniel Brooks]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Some of these articles described how fbterm has "features".  Two of
> these random features took the key sequences C-M-d and C-M-k.  I think
> it uses C-<right> and C-<left> to move to the next/previous terminal.
> No doubt there are several (or even many) more such features, making the
> program not very useful for running Emacs, which uses pretty much all
> the key sequences, certainly all the alphabetical keys + modifiers.
>
> So, I've never tried it either.

Ah, I see. That is certainly a nuisance. I guess your choice was between
accepting a very limited character set and commenting out or changing
fbterm’s dumb key bindings, which is not an appealing option to me
either.

db48x