On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Wiseman wrote:
I also noticed terminals (at least the ones I tried) use ^[ as Esc, and ^[xxx for all other non-printable keys. This has the very undesirable effect of making Esc a dead key (for which mc has a fix, but a delay of 1 second is far too much; I'd rather have 0 seconds). This also has the effect that Alt+<letter> is the same as Esc <letter>. Are there any terminals that will handle Esc differently, so that it becomes a real key you can just use normally?
not really (there were long ago some terminals that used other control sequences without ESC, but there aren't many). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net