From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16653 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2009 15:29:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 16643 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jan 2009 15:29:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-bw0-f16.google.com (HELO mail-bw0-f16.google.com) (209.85.218.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:28:55 +0000 Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so3112011bwz.2 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:28:51 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.248.17 with SMTP id a17mr714478mus.83.1232033262486; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:27:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <496EC898.1090504@gmail.com> References: <496A5EDE.9010204@veritech.com> <496A7038.402@gmail.com> <496B7C25.3090705@veritech.com> <496E528D.1090801@gmail.com> <496EC898.1090504@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: <17393e3e0901150727x682fc936x973049080f68945b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: keycodes (was: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc.) From: Matt Wozniski To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00466.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > Speaking of history, does anyone know why xterm and rxvt diverged so much on > modifier keycodes and why the xterm codes ended up being six characters > long? Because rxvt failed to adhere to the relevant standards[1]. [1] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-048.htm ~Matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/