#15294: Terminal should provide an emulated Meta key
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Reporter: simonsouth | Owner: jackburton
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/Terminal | Version: R1/Development
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Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by simonsouth):
Jérôme's [https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/1727#message-
d5a7fa2e1adf292a542620d3eabead3109e131d9 comment on Gerrit] has me
thinking this might be better implemented as a "virtual Meta key"
[https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-
docs/bebook/BInputServerFilter_Overview.html input filter]. This would
have a straightforward way of listening for keymap changes and might even
define a "B_META_KEY" modifier flag applications could easily check for.
Not only would this be more elegant (Jérôme's right; the keymap-file
monitoring is a hack) it could potentially be reused in other applications
as well, such as the Haiku-native port of GNU Emacs I hope will one day
exist.
I'm reading up on this now to see what's feasible.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/15294#comment:6>
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