Re: [dev] [st] Terminal abnormal key codes

From: Greg Reagle <greg.reagle_AT_umbc.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 12:47:10 -0400

On 09/02/2015 12:21 PM, Greg Reagle wrote:
> I've been reading this conversation with interest. I tried different shells with xterm versus st.
>
> On 09/02/2015 11:29 AM, Fabian Homborg wrote:
>> If you launch fish in { konsole, xterm, gnome-terminal, linux in-kernel
>> VTs, iTerm2, ... } your keys work, without smkx.
>>
>> If you launch fish in st, your keys don't, until you do "tput smkx".
>
> I confirm that this is true on my computer: for the shells fish, bash, ksh, and mksh, in xterm, the Delete key works; whereas in st it doesn't work without tput smkx.
>
> However, with zsh in st, the Delete key works immediately.

Sorry, correction. I mis-reported on ksh. Here are my results:

Delete key
| | xterm | xterm | st | st |
| | rmkx | smkx | rmkx | smkx |
|------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
| zsh | works | works | works | works |
|------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
| bash | works | works | no-op | works |
| mksh | works | works | no-op | works |
| tcsh | works | works | no-op | works |
|------+-------+-------+-------+-------|
| fish | works | works | '[P' | works |
| ksh | '~' | '~' | '~' | '~' |


The anomaly of '[P' with fish might be fixed in a later version. I am running fish, version 2.1.2-1256-g64af63b.
Received on Wed Sep 02 2015 - 18:47:10 CEST