XKEY

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: MiNT
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NAME

xkey - re-program function and cursor keys

SYNOPSIS

xkey [ [ key def ] ... ]

DESCRIPTION

With no arguments, xkey prints the current definitions for all the function and cursor keys affected by the xkey option to stty(1MiNT).

With arguments, xkey will re-define the keys, so that future Fread(2MiNT) calls on this terminal will return the new strings (providing that the terminal status is set so that xkey is on). In the definition strings, the characters ``^'' and ``\'' have special meanings: ``^'' introduces a control character, and ``\'' quotes the next character (so that e.g. ``\^'' is a caret).

MAPPINGS

The default mapping is as follows:

Key                             Definition

f1-f10                          ESC P, ESC Q, ..., ESC Y
F1-F10 (shifted function keys)  ESC p, ESC q, ..., ESC y
help                            ESC H
undo                            ESC K
insert                          ESC I
home                            ESC E

cursor keys:

up                              ESC A
down                            ESC B
right                           ESC C
left                            ESC D
shifted cursor keys:
UP                              ESC a
DOWN                            ESC b
RIGHT                           ESC c
LEFT                            ESC d

IMPLEMENTATION

Built with the MiNT library, patchlevel 19. Using a different library, or an earlier version of the MiNT library, may or may not cause problems; in particular, various constants defined in <signal.h> and <ioctl.h> will probably be wrong if you are not using the MiNT library.

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