keycodes (was: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc.)

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> > >  > "\e[1;5A": history-search-backward
> > >  > "\e[1;5B": history-search-forward
> > >
> > > Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't seem 
> > > to work for me.
> > Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line 
> > in the history that started like that.
> Why not simply type Ctrl-R then the first few letters of a command (or 
> some letters in the middle of a command). Works great! Requires no 
> support from any terminal emulator...

Yes, obviously you can bind the history search to any key you like.

To do the same as above with rxvt:

  "\eOa": history-search-backward
  "\eOb": history-search-forward

Speaking of history, does anyone know why xterm and rxvt diverged so 
much on modifier keycodes and why the xterm codes ended up being six 
characters long?

Andy

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