Section 7: Using Command Keys

TouchTerm supports the most commonly used special characters, using overlay keyboards that can be displayed or hidden using buttons in the toolbar. Note that the keyboards can have their transparency adjusted using the "UI Transparency" setting -- see the Terminal Settings section.

Tapping the "Ctrl..." button alternately shows or hides the "Control Keys" keyboard.

Tapping the "Ctrl" button initiates a Control-key command. This will raise the keyboard (if it's not visible already), and the next character pressed will be submitted as a control sequence. For example, to send a Ctrl-C (break), tap the "Ctrl" button and then tap the "C" key. If you tap the Ctrl button and then decide you don't want to send a control character, you can tap the Ctrl button again to cancel.

The "Alt" button functions in the same way as the Control key, and is used to send Alt (Meta) character chords.

Note that the "Tab" (Tab key), "Esc" (Escape key), "Ret" (Return key), and "^C" (Control-C, or Break) keys send their corresponding keystrokes to the sever immediately -- even in Auto-Return Mode or Batch Mode.

TouchTerm also supports arrow (cursor) keys. To show or hide the cursor keys, tap the "Arrows" button in the toolbar. This will display the four arrow keys, overlaid on the terminal output window.

The "Fn" Toolbar button is used to display or hide the Function Keys keyboard. Use this keyboard to transmit the F1-F12 keys to the server.

Finally, TouchTerm also supports the backquote character "`", which is not available on the iPhone keyboard. You can enter a backquote by tapping the "dot" key: this is found on US English keyboards by tapping "?.123", then "#+=", then it's in the second row at the right side of the keyboard. (Note that this is not the same as the "period" key.)