kcan=^C in putty terminfo entry considered harmful

[Sven Joachim]

The terminfo entry for putty defines kcan=^C, which unfortunately breaks
Emacs rather badly.  Upon pressing C-h C-c, Emacs tells me

<cancel> (translated from C-c) is undefined

With Ctrl-C being non-functional, Emacs is next to unusable. :-(
What is the reason for the kcan=^C definition?

Sven


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[Thomas Dickey-2]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:

> The terminfo entry for putty defines kcan=^C, which unfortunately breaks
> Emacs rather badly.  Upon pressing C-h C-c, Emacs tells me
>
> <cancel> (translated from C-c) is undefined
>
> With Ctrl-C being non-functional, Emacs is next to unusable. :-(
> What is the reason for the kcan=^C definition?

I didn't notice that - it was in the (fairly large) change by
Robert de Bath in 2004-08-07

On some older Unix systems, it was not uncommon to see bindings which
equated to control keys in stty, e.g.,  '^\'.  That sort of
reasoning may have been the origin of this detail.  Or perhaps just
completness.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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