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Fairlight
fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Aug 30 11:57:02 PDT 2011
The honourable and venerable Bob Rasmussen spoke thus:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Fairlight wrote:
>
> > Simon--er, no...it was Bob Rasmussen--said:
> > > I would, of course, argue that running Anzio Lite or, especially, AnzioWin
> > > would give you more functionality on the client end than would PuTTY.
> >
> > Yes and no. You would not be able to use the Alt-Fn key mappings Jay
> > cited. You would also not be able to do Alt-key as you can in PuTTY. I
> > know you blew me off as to how it can't be done, you don't know how PuTTY
> > achieves it, etc. All I can say is read the PuTTY source, cos it -does-
> > handle Alt-keystroke (like Alt-S for search in YaST, etc), and it's the
> > main thing lacking in Anzio Lite that ticks me off. I should not have to
> > tab 8 times instead of hit an Alt combo.
>
> Please remind me what you're talking about. It sounds to me like two
> different things:
>
> 1) To use Alt-Fn to jump to a certain session of PuTTY. Do you mean in
> multiple sessions of one PuTTY connected to 'screen'? Or do you mean
> between multiple independent PuTTY sessions.
That, for starters. I use regular F1-F8 (unmodified) to switch screens in
screen(1). Jay apparently prefers to use the console-emulating Alt-Fn
config. Which would be superior, as I have to detach screen or use a
separate terminal window (even with putty) to get function keys for things
like filePro or YaST, using my screen(1) bindings.
> 2) Assigning some character sequence to be sent to the host when the user
> hits Alt-S, for instance. Anzio allows this (although I don't know what
> YaST wants to receive to initiate a search).
YaST wants Alt-S. Don't ask me how putty does it...no clue. It just does,
without me mapping a thing. Alt-S, Alt-F, Alt-L, Alt-Q, Alt-V...name it,
it works as if you were physically on the console, in any ncurses-based
application. It doesn't want a string assigned to it, it wants an actual
Alt-modified keystroke. Putty manages it out of the box, somehow.
Maybe Jay or Brian know how, but I don't. Source should reveal it, though.
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