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Re: Readline -- cannot bind to both Ctrl-tab and tab at the same time?

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On 07/09/2015 02:42 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>:
> 
>> It makes perfect sense to me that TAB and Ctrl-TAB would generate the
>> same keycode, as TAB is itself a control character (Ctrl-I). As the
>> Ctrl modifier bit is effectively already set, I don't think you can
>> really set it a second time and be able to detect it.
> 
> If you input a character stream, that's the case since the characters
> are Unicode code points. AFAIK, Unicode doesn't have Ctrl-TAB as a
> separate code point.

Yes and readline works on character streams, not with X11.
> 
> However, X11 key events come with modifiers. Thus, CAPS-A, LeftShift-A,
> RightShift-A, CAPS-LeftShift-RightShift-A and the plain A are different
> key events (provided the physical keyboard plays along).

Not relevant to libreadline, unfortunately.

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  Re: Readline -- cannot bind to both Ctrl-tab and tab at the same time? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-28 23:22 +0200
  Re: Readline -- cannot bind to both Ctrl-tab and tab at the same time? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-29 11:36 +1000
  Re: Readline -- cannot bind to both Ctrl-tab and tab at the same time? Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2015-07-09 20:03 +0000
    Re: Readline -- cannot bind to both Ctrl-tab and tab at the same time? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-09 23:42 +0300
      Re: Readline -- cannot bind to both Ctrl-tab and tab at the same time? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-07-09 22:56 -0600

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