M-PageUp and M-PageDown do not work

[subnut]

Terminals tested:

• foot (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot)
• alacritty (https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty)
• kitty (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty)

Escape code produced

• Meta+Page Up

  ^[[5;3~
  

• Meta+Page Down

  ^[[6;3~
  

[subnut]

Temporary workaround

Create/Append to ~/.vty/config

map "foot" "\ESC[5;3~" KPageUp [MMeta]
map "foot" "\ESC[6;3~" KPageDown [MMeta]

where foot is the value of $TERM

Create the above entries for all the concerned terminals' $TERM values

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@glguy I think this issue can be closed if you think that this should be fixed upstream (in the vty library that glirc is using)

[glguy]

I think this is already fixed upstream. Are you using an outdated package from a distro package manager or something built with cabal?

[subnut]

Built by cabal. glirc hasn't been packaged for Void Linux, it seems.

How to re-build?

[glguy]

These bindings were added to vty here: jtdaugherty/vty@27e9bf7

So that'd mean the fix is available in versions 5.34 5.33 5.32

Make sure your cabal-install binary is up-to-date: 3.6.2.0. By default cabal will use one of these versions to build glirc, but if yours isn't for some reason you can encourage it with: cabal install "--constraint=vty>=5.32"

[subnut]

Ah, well, that commit adds support for "\ESC\ESC[5~", but the escape code emitted by the tested terminals is "\ESC[5;3~"

[glguy]

"\ESC[5;3~" is just regular Page Up. The extra \ESC is what makes it Meta-PageUp

[subnut]

Nope, in the terminals mentioned in the OP, "\ESC[5~" is the regular Page Up, and "\ESC[5;3~" is the Meta-PageUp 🙃

[subnut]

Ah, looks like I found the source of all this drama -
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol

[subnut]

Closing because it is an upstream issue in jtdaugherty/vty