Re: key bindings table?

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/23/2014 03:40 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

Bart:
> On Feb 22, 10:35am, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } Do we have a key bindings table that translates all the various ways of
> } referring to a key press?
>
> You can generate one for your terminal/keyboard combo by running the
> "zkbd" utility.  As you noticed, $terminfo (from zsh/terminfo module)
> sometimes has useful definitions but it's more interested in what the
> terminal understands for cursor motion than what the keyboard sends
> for input.
Yeah, I was put onto that. The output is easy to understand, but also 
quite limited. If it coughed up all the  possible legal key combos, that 
would be the thing.  I've had some satisfaction from 'dumpkeys' and 
'showkey' however.
> }
> }    [[ "$terminfo[kend]"  == "O"* ]] &&
> }    bindkey -M emacs "${terminfo[kend]/O/[}"  end-of-line
>
> I'm not sure which "zbindkey" this refers to.  It's not something that
> is distributed with zsh.
No? I wonder where it came from then, maybe I made it myself, to cut KB 
stuff out of zshrc. Anyway those '$terminfo' lines are certainly not my 
making since I don't know how they work ;-)

> Two of them do, in this case.  Keyboards can be in two states, usually
> called "normal mode" and "keypad transmit mode" and the End key sends
> different sequences depending on which mode is in effect.  ^E is the
> usual emacs end-of-line binding, the other two are End key values.
Yikes, that's a new concept for me.
> There are too many interchangable combinations of keyboards and terminals
> (and operating systems) to create a table that covers them all.  The zkbd
> ...

Ok then, I'll make do. I suppose one might wish for a 'complete' output from zkbd, short of that, I can use 'showkey' to check out the codes for a key, and then 'bindkey' to see if/what that key is doing at the moment and 'zkbd' for a nice if incomplete listing of the important keys.


Thanks as always.