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[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Rasmussen" <ras at anzio.com>

> Please remind me what you're talking about. It sounds to me like two
> different things:

Since I was being quoted, I'll jump back in.  I, too, think Mark might 
have conflated.

> 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.

*I* meant passing Alt-Fn through to screen or tmux as a "go to this 
session directly" key.  PuTTY permits you to disable the Alt-F4 hook (which
I *think* it has to tell the window manager about, since that's supposed to
be trapped to allow killing a stuck app).

> 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).

The mapping is generally called META in the Unix world, and I believe the
standard way to fit it into a 7=bit channel is Esc-

Esc, then, S within the curses timeout timer, for that particular example.

You can test this by manually typing that into a terminal session.

In fact, I believe Putty has a knob to determine how META is encoded.

Cheers,
-- jra
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