Re: Is it possible to remap C-; in zsh?

["Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> On 22 September 2010 00:18, Derek Thurn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a fan of remapping Ctrl+Semicolon, since it's conveniently on the 
> > home row. However, when I try and map it to something in zsh using 
> > bindkey, it doesn't let me. Am I out of luck if I want to bind this 
> > useful sequence to a zsh function?
>
> There is no such character as ^; so most terminals just send a ; when 
> you press ctrl-;, this is true of many other ascii chars near that 
> range. If you can rebind the keycombo in your terminal you can bind 
> that in zsh, but that is specific to your particular terminal.
>
> In urxvt you could put this in your x resources:
> URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033[50~

After which it can be bound via:

bindkey "\033[50~" widget-name

Just emphasizing that there's still no equivalency of any sort with 
Ctrl-;

\033[50~ is sort of like the sequence an <F36> key might produce:

F1=\e[11~, F2=\e[12~, F3=\e[13~, ...
(skips after F5, F10, F14, F16),
F18=\e[32~, F19=\e[33~, F20=\e[34~, ...

(I assume '50' was picked for being unlikely to conflict.)

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Best,
Ben