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- From: sharman@Software.Mitel.COM (Richard Sharman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Sys V curses and applcursorkeys
- Message-ID: <SHARMAN.92Jul22233414@sharman.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 03:34:14 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.115303.11544@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: sharman@Software.Mitel.COM
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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- In-reply-to: jstump@vnet.ibm.com's message of 20 Jul 92 11:53:03 GMT
-
- >
- > 2. I understand WHAT 'setterm -applcursorkeys on|off' does, but WHY? Could
- > someone enlighten me as to what the motivation for obtaining different code
- > sequences for the keys is?
-
- I think the "why" is to make it compatible with a VT100.
- One advantage of having it set is within emacs. If you set
- application mode on you can use the keypad keys "/", "*", "-",
- "Enter" and so on (they become distinct from the ordinary keys).
- In numeric mode (application off) the keypad Enter looks like the
- normal Return key. This is assuming you have a 101 key keyboard.
-