gnome-terminal and ^] telnet escape character

[Christopher Calzonetti]

*sigh*

Okay.  So I found out a few more things as I played with different apps, 
  and the quote-literal thingie is a good idea.  I wouldn't have thought 
of that.

It works in xterm.  It works on the console.  It probably works in other 
applications.

In gnome-terminal, under vi, it acts as if I hadn't pressed anything. 
On a whim, I tried hitting CTRL-=, and I got the exact same behaviour. 
Presumably, the keystroke is intercepted by gnome-terminal as a keyboard 
shortcut.

Okay, so let's remap CTRL-= in the keyboard shortcuts and see what 
happens...

First off, the keyboard shortcuts menu correctly identified CTRL-] as 
"<Control> bracketright" and CTRL-SHIFT-] as "<Control> braceright" 
which I was surprised at.

Secondly, when I remapped the "View->Normal Size" command, which was 
mapped to CTRL-= to something else (in this case CTRL-0) then weirdness 
of weirdness, I was able to get CTRL-] to work properly in telnet!

Mapping the Normal Size shortcut back to CTRL-=, again rendered CTRL-] 
useless.

I can potentially live with this re-mapping, (I hardly ever use those 
commands anyway) but I'd _really_ like to know why this is happening. 
Oddly enough, disabling the keyboard shortcuts entirely doesn't help.

Oh, and if it matters, Math at UWaterloo just uses standard US keyboard 
mappings.  I in particular, also have the Dvorak mapping installed, but 
I hardly ever use it anymore.  I should go back.  I miss it.  There. 
All done.  Bah.  The keymappings still don't work though.

Cheers,
Chris

James Wilkinson wrote:
> Christopher Calzonetti wrote:
> 
> Um. Sounds like an oddity of the keyboard layout you're using. (What
> does the maths department at the University of Waterloo use, anyway?)
> 
> Can you open vi, and press "i" for insert mode. Then press Ctrl-V Ctrl-]
> and Ctrl-V Ctrl-Shift-], which should give a representation of what the
> keyboard is actually sending.
> 
> (Press Escape followed by :q! to get out of vi).
> 
> James.
> 

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