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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.

mark->
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