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I have a color scheme that I like for when I'm in a terminal, but I ssh into the machine I work on from multiple sources (locally, PuTTY, my netbook, etc.) and I want to maintain the same color scheme ...
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I just noticed this by accident. I use the vi readline mode (run set -o vi in bash) so it is particularly noticeable; in emacs readline mode I don't think Esc does anything, but in vi mode it exits ...
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I am trying to understand how terminal works by doing different tricks, like writing from one tty to another, changing settings tty1 from tty2, etc. Also, I am trying to change a color by sending ...
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Am I right that all input typed from the keyboard goes through a controlling terminal? That means that if a program is run without a controlling terminal, it won't be able to receive any user input. ...
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I'm trying to make the following bindings in my ~/.inputrc: (Ctrl+Del): kill-word (Ctrl+Backspace): backward-kill-word (Ctrl+forward arrow): forward-word (Ctrl+back arrow): backward-word (Home): ...
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I am trying to learn the basics of Unicode and UTF-8, and it so going very smoothly so far. I know that it is possible to chose the encoding of a file when opening it. When I type text using the ...
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in Ubuntu (or for that matter most other linux distros), I could use the shortcut ctrl+t to open a new tab (in firefox or similar), or I could use alt+tab to make unity switch highlighted window, or I ...
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I am trying to install some key sequence bindings but I have trouble. My shell is bash, my terminal is gnome-terminal, and my system is Ubuntu 14.04 in graphic mode. Edit : my keyboard is french ...
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The below command makes a copy of the input file descriptor and use the duplicate file descriptor for writing data from the echo command on to the terminal. sh-4.2$ exec 6<&0 sh-4.2$ echo "...
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This question is inspired by another question on vi.SE. There, OP has issues with the Shift+F8 key combination when running vim inside urxvt. That key combination will never work in vim because the ...
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How can I build a component that sits between the keyboard and applications that captures all key presses and emits it's own key press signals. The emitted signals won't necessarily be 1-to-1 with ...
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I am used to ctrl+backspace in Ubuntu and OS X. I want to understand this because it helps me how the system is designed and built. Still, you have the emacs keybindings like ctrl+u, ... in Terminal. ...
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xterm has a modifyOtherKeys option that tells it to construct an escape sequence for various key combinations that are normally not available. That option can be enabled in .Xdefaults, or with a ...
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The TTY subsystem contains the TTY driver, line discipline(s) and hardware drivers (keyboard driver, display driver). Let's say I use a virtual terminal/console. So, my current session uses ‍/dev/...
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I want to somehow generate a comprehensive "menu" of all possible ways to set up the GNU-screen "command characters" for a standard, off-the-shelf "US keyboard" and a specific terminal emulator, say ...
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