[Konsole-devel] [Bug 96282] New: Wish: <Super> and <Hyper> prefix option

[H.Peter Anvin]

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           Summary: Wish: <Super> and <Hyper> prefix option
           Product: konsole
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: RedHat RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: hpa zytor com


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:                Linux

Newer PC keyboards have a couple of unlabelled keys, which are convenient to bind to the <Super> and <Hyper> extra bucky bits.  This allows for more macro keys that can be easily remembered, especially in keystroke-rich editors like emacs.

It would be nice to be able to use these when not interfacing directly to an X window, i.e. via a terminal.  The obvious way to do that is to emit a prefix when, for example Super-s is pressed.

For the particular purpose of Emacs, the sequence ^X @ s is already recognized as a <Super> prefix, and ^X @ h as a <Hyper> prefix, so it would be nice to at least have the ability to generate those sequences.  Otherwise it's not a huge deal to create a .emacs file which will recognize just about any arbitrary prefix.  (Emacs also recognizes ^X @ c as a <Ctrl> prefix, mainly for non-numeric keys, e.g. ^X @ c ^[ O P will be recognized as <Ctrl><F1>.