Re: SI/SO G0/G1 in linux console

[Erika Pacholleck <pacholleck@xxxxxxxx>]

[28.02.02 17:22 +0200] Vasilis Vasaitis <-- :
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:26:38PM +0100, Erika Pacholleck wrote:
> > expected behaviour from this:
> > - typing [Ctrl]+[o] sending Control_o (switch to G0)
> > - typing [Ctrl]+[n] sending Control_n (switch to G1)
> 
>   Expected behaviour where? You can't expect terminal applications
> to just echo every character they receive to the terminal. 
> A notable exception to this is cat(1), which will just echo at its
> output whatever it receives in its input. In fact, cat is very useful
> for tests like this.
 
>   As I said, just because you press ^N or ^O at the bash prompt, doesn't
> mean that it will echo them to the terminal. Use cat and it will do what
> you expect.
 
Thanks, NOW I understand!! So a description how to produce that is
type cat, press [ENTER], [Ctrl]+[n] or +[o], [ENTER], [Ctrl]+[d], [ENTER]
and that really works, great. I simply did not understand the docs.
 
>   To summarize, remember that ^N and ^O, like most other codes, change the
> state of the terminal when they are output to it, not when they are input
> from it.

That was what I wanted to achieve, have ls $HOME output in graphical
mode, and to output it like that I needed to set the terminal to that
state first.

> As a rule of thumb, the ASCII value for ^X, where X is any letter of
> the english alphabet, equals the position of that letter in the alphabet.
 
I did not know that, this is really a good way to remember it.

Thanks very much, everything is fine now.
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