Control- U, H, J, K

[lump]

The GNU-style Emacs keybindings, default in Bash, are deeply ingrained into my mind. Control- K: cut to end of line, U: cut to start of line, H: delete backwards,

I have faint memories of using those keys on my //c as shortcuts to arrow keys. Control- H: left, J: down, K: right, and U: up. I turned on the printf debug lines and watched xev, and it appears that the arrow keycodes are being sent. The translation might be happening in the ROM, but I wouldn't know. Could it be in the a2pi.s assembly code? Could provision be made to turn off the arrow keys on h, j, k, and u: sending the Control-L keycodes and letters instead?

Is it possible to make things act more raw, so GNU/Bash and Emacs will work properly?

[lump]

I think I got it. They're actually mapped to arrows in kbmap.h. Changing them back to control scancodes did the trick. Here's a patch of what I did:

file-kbmap-revert-control-keys-patch

Please consider making this change in the master branch.

[lump]

Oh, sigh. That change ended up changing the arrow keys themselves, too. Do the arrow keys not have their own scancodes? It'd be sad if that is truly the case.

[dschmenk]

Sorry, the arrow keys are mapped to control codes in HW. Such is life with a 35 year old ASCII keyboard.

left arrow: ctrl-H
right arrow: ctrl-U (oh, why couldn't it be ctrl-L?)
up arrow: ctrl-K
down arrow: ctrl-J

Dave...