Character map overrides

[Jeff Ober]

I see that there is a preferences field for character-map-overrides. What is the format of this field? I am hoping I can use it to map caps/search to escape while within the app, preserving the search/launcher binding elsewhere.

[Brad Town]

It's not for changing the behavior of the keyboard. It's for changing what is displayed when using the alternate character set.

character-map-overrides is specified as an object. It is a sparse array, where each property is the character set code and the value is an object that is a sparse array itself. In that sparse array, each property is the received character and the value is the displayed character.

For example, specifying the following:

{"0":{"+":"\u2192",",":"\u2190","-":"\u2191",".":"\u2193","0":"\u2588","h":"\u2591","i":"\u256c","~":"\u2022"}}

This would modify character set "0" and add codes for "+", ",", "-", "." (arrows pointing right, left, up, and down, respectively), and "0" (solid square block). It would also change the codes for "h" to a light shade (board of squares), "i" to box drawings double vertical and horizontal (lantern symbol), and "~" to a bullet.

This is useful for things like adding codes for the alternate character set in ncurses. The terminfo man page (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/terminfo.5.html) shows the glyphs supported by ncurses (search for "Line Graphics" on the page).

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Jeff Ober <jo...@ziprecruiter.com> wrote:

I see that there is a preferences field for character-map-overrides. What is the format of this field? I am hoping I can use it to map caps/search to escape while within the app, preserving the search/launcher binding elsewhere.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "chromium-hterm" group.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/chromium-hterm/6a30d196-c1e7-4a13-a340-445b140ba6f2%40chromium.org.

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chromium-hter...@chromium.org.

[Jeff Ober]

Ok, understood. Is it possible to get a setting to alter the search key behavior? There is already a setting make the media keys act as fkeys. It would mean a lot to we vim users :)

--

Jeff Ober

mobile: 937.242.3612
email: jo...@ziprecruiter.com

Old programmers don't die; they just parse on...

[Mike Frysinger]

if you're using CrOS, doesn't the system settings have an option to change the search key behavior ?

-mike

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/chromium-hterm/CAGDWPMCJGetuMqBnKRT%2BTp7HEYwou%3Dsr%2Bse5XPfX%3D1qVApLaUA%40mail.gmail.com.

[Jeff Ober]

It does indeed. I was hoping to retain the search functionality in the rest of the system and have it remapped only in the terminal. That way I can retain the "super" key functionality while still having caps:escape in the terminal.

[tlav...@google.com]

Jeff, did you figure out a solution?

[gamingsk...@gmail.com]

How do I use the alternate character set?

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chromiu...@chromium.org.

[Mike Frysinger]

there is no reason to.  stick to Unicode/UTF-8 for everything.

-mike

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chromium-hter...@chromium.org.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/chromium-hterm/67ce665f-49dd-4e19-af4c-a1bc80a1ce5e%40chromium.org.

[gamingsk...@gmail.com]

Brad said it the character map override is for changing what characters are displayed when using an alternate character set.  Are you saying I don't have to use an alternate character set to see my changes?  Because I can't see them. 

I used the following code, because I wanted everything to show as capitalized, but it didn't change anything.

{

  "0": {

    "a": "A",

    "b": "B",

    "c": "C",

    "d": "D",

    "e": "E",

    "f": "F",

    "g": "G",

    "h": "H",

    "i": "I",

    "j": "J",

    "k": "K",

    "l": "L",

    "m": "M",

    "n": "N",

    "o": "O",

    "p": "P",

    "q": "Q",

    "r": "R",

    "s": "S",

    "t": "T",

    "u": "U",

    "v": "V",

    "w": "W",

    "x": "X",

    "y": "Y",

    "z": "Z"

  }

}

The idea is to display all letters as uppercase, but it does not change the shell.  Maybe I have to edit the environment variables?

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chromiu...@chromium.org.

[Mike Frysinger]

i'm saying don't use ACS.  it's a legacy concept that needs to die asap.

if you want more technical details, see the FAQ and the docs it links to:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/nassh/doc/FAQ.md#Why-do-curses-apps-display-x_q_etc_instead-of-and-and-other-graphics

-mike

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chromium-hter...@chromium.org.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/chromium-hterm/27da4ab6-8bc5-451d-a60e-9b792477b3f6%40chromium.org.

[gamingsk...@gmail.com]

Okay, but I'm just interested if it is possible or not?  I just want all my characters to appear uppercase.  If there is another way to do it, that works too.

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/chromium-hterm/27da4ab6-8bc5-451d-a60e-9b792477b3f6%40chromium.org.

[gamingsk...@gmail.com]

Basically CAN I substitute one character for another?  and how would I do it?