Hello,

I am trying to assing an escape code to a key through a keymap with
no luck. I will provide some kind of example of this thing I am
struggling with:

The keymap:
keycode 0x3b = F50
string F50 = "echo ^[c \n"

That would asign a "clear screen" escape code to function key 1
(0x1a in hexadecimal as shown by showkey), but well, it doesn't work.
Notice that should be "^[" a literal escape (in Vim, C-v plus Esc).

I have tryied also with octal sequences (as said in keymaps manual):

keycode 0x3b = F50
string F50 = "echo \033c \n"

Being "\033" octal for escape. Again, no luck.


The thing about function keys is that I am not able to shift a
function key into another one:

keycode 0x3c = F1
keycode 0x3b = j

That should mean: We press F1 (0x3b) and we get a letter j (works),
and we press F2 (0x3c) and we get F1, i.e. letter j (doesn't work).


Being curious I have also tried with readline (.inputrc)

.inputrc file:
"\e[11~": "echo ^[c \n"

It doesn't work neither.


And those are my thoughts. I would thank any suggestion.

Many thanks for your time and attention.

Best regards,
Marcus.

Marcus Brody wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to assing an escape code to a key through a keymap with
> no luck. I will provide some kind of example of this thing I am
> struggling with:
>
> The keymap:
> keycode 0x3b = F50
> string F50 = "echo ^[c \n"

You want "echo -e \"\033[2J\n\""

$ man echo

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