Re: what is converting ESC[4~ to ^[[e ???

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From: Ivan Wills
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:00

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Kent Tong (freemant@wr.com.au) wrote:

: The keytable says clearly that the "End" key generates the
: ascii sequence of ESC[4~ but bash seems to be receiving
: the sequence of ^[[e when the "End" key is pressed. Is the
: tty driver performing this transformation? If not, what is?
: Why?


Escape is often written as ESC or ^[ don't know about the rest.


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Ivan Wills 
Email     : inw@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au
Home Page : http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~inw/

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