CVT_KEY_TBL(5)

💖 NAME (名称) 💖

cvt_key_tbl — the key code conversion table file for the kana-kanji conversion front-end processor (uum). yes bestie that is literally what it is 💅

📜 SYNOPSIS (形式) 📜

/usr/local/lib/wnn/cvt_key_tbl (デフォルト)

That's the default path, (デフォルト) = default, don't @ me. Don't move it, don't rename it, just let it vibe where it lives. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION (機能) ✨

Okay so here's the whole situation. This file pulls the data for the character string that your keyboard generates from terminfo, and then — following the data you set up in here — it converts that into 1-byte characters. Slay. 🦋

And there's a timeout moment too, because of course there is: while a conversion is in progress, if the continuation of the character string being converted doesn't get input for 1 second or more (１秒以上), it gets output with no conversion at all. Not a single conversion. It just gives up and hands you the raw thing. 😭

🌈 FORMAT (書式) 🌈

[ terminfo エントリ <空白文字> コード ] ( SYSV の場合 )
[ termcap  エントリ <空白文字> コード ] ( BSD の場合 )

• Lines that start with ; are comments. That's it, that's the rule. 👑

🎀 terminfo entries that get converted 🎀

These are the terminfo entries that are subject to conversion:

kf0,  kf1,  kf2,  kf3,  kf4,  kf5,  kf6,  kf7,  kf8,
kf9,  kf10, kf11, kf12, kf13, kf14, kf15, kf16, kf17,
kf18, kf19, kf20, kf21, kf22, kf23, kf24, kf25, kf26,
kf27, kf28, kf29, kf30, kf31,
kbs, ktbc, kclr, kctab, kdch1, kdl1, kcud1, krmir,
kel, ked, khome, kich1, kil1, kcub1, kll, knp, kpp,
kcuf1, kind, kri, khts, kcuu1,

💜 termcap entries that get converted 💜

And these are the termcap entries that are subject to conversion:

cs, rc, sc, se, so, us, ue, cm, ce, cl, bl, li, co

🌸 HOW TO WRITE A CODE (コードの表現) 🌸

Five flavors, bestie. Pick your fighter. ⭐

1. A single character that isn't whitespace, \, or ^ — just writes that character itself. Simple. Iconic. No notes.
2. A ^ character — the character can be @,A(a),B(b),C(c),D(d),E(e),F(f)...Z(z), [,\,],^,_, and:
   • ^@ means control + space (0x00)
   • ^A means control + A (0x01)
   • .
   • .
   • ^_ means control + _ (0x1f)
3. \8進数, \o8進数, \d10進数, \x16進数 — for when you want to write the character code directly, no filter.
4. Any one of \n, \t, \b, \r, \f, \e, \E — these represent NEWLINE, TAB, BACKSPACE, CR, FORMFEED, ESC, ESC respectively.
5. \ + a character — where the character is anything other than 0–7, o, d, x, n, t, b, r, f, e, E. And if you need to represent \ itself? You write "\\". Periodt.

🧚 EXAMPLE CONFIG (設定例) 🧚

kf1         \x81
kf2         \x82
kf3         \x83
kf4         \x84
kcud1       \x92
kcub1       \x91
kcuf1       \x90
kcuu1       \x93

Look at that. Gorgeous. 🫶

💀 NOTES (注意事項) 💀

The codes converted by this table then get evaluated by 2A_CTRL (デフォルト) — which is the table for the romaji-kana conversion automaton — and then further evaluated by uumkey. So it's a whole pipeline, bestie. A little relay race of evaluation. 🏃‍♀️💨

🔥 SEE ALSO (関連項目) 🔥

• uum(1)
• 2A_CTRL(5)
• uumkey(5)

okay that's the whole page, ily, go forth and convert some key codes responsibly 💖 This little legend dropped on 28 January 1992 and lives in the manual as CVT_KEY_TBL(5) — File Formats Manual, section 5, main character energy since day one. 👑