Tweak README-KeyTab and README.keyboard a bit

Summary:
Rename README.KeyTab to README-KeyTab to prevent Konsole from trying to
load it as a keyboard translator file, and fix references to that file
name in other files.

Flesh out README-KeyTab and README.keyboard and reformat them.

Also copy the the original README-KeyTab to README-KeyTab-original,
just in case there's some concept that I misinterpretted/misunderstood.

Reviewers: #konsole, hindenburg

Reviewed By: #konsole, hindenburg

Subscribers: #konsole

Tags: #konsole

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D12032
wilder-portage
Ahmad Samir 8 years ago committed by Kurt Hindenburg
parent 6b1d799a51
commit 1ec394b9e7
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      data/keyboard-layouts/README-KeyTab
  2. 0
      data/keyboard-layouts/README-KeyTab-original
  3. 7
      data/keyboard-layouts/default.keytab
  4. 24
      doc/user/README.keyboard

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[README-KeyTab]
The keytabs shown in the Edit Profile dialog -> Keyboard tab are taken from
*.keytab configuration files located in the system-wide location (typically
/usr/share/applications/konsole on Linux) or the writable location in the
user's home directory (typically ~/.local/share/applications/konsole on Linux).
Keytabs allow users to configure the behavior of konsole on keyboard events,
especially functions keys. Have a look at doc/user/README.keyboard.
The syntax of each entry/rule follows the pattern:
"key" Keyname { ("+"|"-") Modename } ":" (String|Operation)
Key names are those defined in <qnamespace.h> with the "Qt::Key_" prefix
removed. For a list of key names check the Qt::Key enum at:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt.html#Key-enum
Mode names are:
- Shift : Shift Key pressed
- Alt : Alt Key pressed
- Control : Control Key pressed
( The VT100 emulation has modes that can affect the sequences emitted
by certain keys. Those modes are under control of the client program.
- Newline : affects Return and Enter keys, when set makes them send
both \r and \n control characters; when reset makes them
send \r only.
- Application : affects applications that use the Alternate Screen buffer.
- Ansi : send ANSI escape and control sequences (v.s. sending VT52
escape and control sequences).
Since sending a state to a program that has set the state itself is
positivly wrong and obsolete design, better forget about this nasty
detail. I may well remove this "feature" in a future clean up round. )
A "+" preceding a Modename means the Key/mode is pressed/active respectively.
A "-" preceding a Modename means the Key/mode isn't pressed/active respectively.
If a mode isn't present in a key combination, its state is ignored.
Note that the combination of Key and Modes (set/reset) has to be unique.
This means, that
key A + Shift : "A"
key A : "a"
will not accept the small letter "a" rule as you'd exepct, you'll have
to add a "- Shift" to the latter rule to make it work.
Use the stdout/stderr dianostics of konsole when modifying keytabs to
find problems like these.
Supported operations are
- scrollUpLine : scroll up one line in the history log
- scrollUpPage : scroll up one page in the history log
- scrollDownLine : scroll down one line in the history log
- scrollDownPage : scroll down one page in the history log
- scrollUpToTop : scroll up to the begining of the history log
- scrollDownToBottom : scroll down to the end of the history log
Strings have the syntax of C strings,
one may use the following escapes:
- \E - Escape
- \\ - Backslash
- \" - Double quote
- \t - Tab
- \r - Carriage Return
- \n - New Line
- \b - Backspace
- \xHH - where HH are two hex digits (e.g. \x00 (the NUL character))

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# [README.default.Keytab] Default Keyboard Table
#
# To customize your keyboard, copy this file to something
# ending with .keytab and change it to meet you needs.
# Please read the README.KeyTab and the README.keyboard
# To customize your keyboard, copy this file to something ending with
# .keytab and change it to meet you needs.
#
# Please read the README-KeyTab and the doc/user/README.keyboard files
# in this case.
#
# --------------------------------------------------------------

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[README.keyboard]
The *.keytab files (located in $KDEDIR/share/apps/konsole) allow
to configure the keyboard due to your specific environment.
The *.keytab files (located in /usr/share/applications/konsole and
~/.local/share/applications/konsole) allow you to configure the keyboard
to suit your specific environment/requirements.
Beside that you can use them to make the keyboard emit virtually
any escape sequence you want, here a probe of more typical problems
related to keyboards, that can be coped with this way:
Beside that you can use them to make the keyboard emit virtually any
escape sequence you want, here are some notes about the more typical
problems related to keyboards, that can be coped with this way:
- BS Hack
While one would expect, that the Backspace key send ASCII
Backspace, this is not the case in many Linux installations.
While one would expect, that the Backspace key send ASCII Backspace,
this is not the case in many Linux installations.
The idea behind this hack is to preserve the CTRL-H.
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Note that your system is not unlikely to have other keyboard databases
which have to be in sync, too (e.g. /etc/inputrc for readline(3)).
If you want to adjust things to your needs, copy one of the
*.keytab files and edit it. When restarted, konsole offers
you this new entry on it's menu.
If you want to adjust things to your needs you can copy one of the *.keytab
files and edit it. The changes will take effect after restarting konsole.
In case your new keytab is likely to suit common needs,
please contribute to konsole by sending me the file.
In case your new keytab is likely to suit common needs, please contribute
to konsole by sending us the file.

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