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Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working? |
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Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:16:50 -0400 (EDT) |
> Adding this patch, without any fallback for those who can't get their
> TERM description right, suddenly increases the requirements for using
> lynx-with-slang. We are not talking about adding more encouragement
> for Bad Things, but about taking away something that "worked" (for
> many people at least).
Only partly - they're (I assume) setting their $TERM to something other
than the terminal description that comes with rxvt, e.g., "vt100" or
"xterm" - or "ansi" or "linux".
> Actually, with the code as it is now, lynx-with-slang has become *more*
> strict than lynx-with-ncurses: the latter still uses all the ancient
> hardcoded sequences in LYgetch_for, which are not in the code path for
> slang.
slang uses a piece of that (look at the djgpp code). I'd clean up some of
it, but haven't (til recently) gotten the pieces to do test builds.
> > That chunk of code is really for VMS. (apparently the termcap support in
> > slang isn't portable to non-Unix platforms). The VMS support is really
> > the only valid justification for the table.
>
> But the table seems to be used even with ncurses. (Before this change at
> least; I didn't verify whether dev.4 changed that)
It's used in ncurses as part of making the behavior in
lynx_initialize_keymaps() mirror that of slang. That in turn was designed
to replace the chunk of hardcoded assignments at the top of LYgetch_for().
> Klaus
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- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, T.E.Dickey, 1999/07/16
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, Klaus Weide, 1999/07/16
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/07/16
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, Klaus Weide, 1999/07/17
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/07/17
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/07/17
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, Klaus Weide, 1999/07/17
- Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, brian j pardy, 1999/07/17
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?,
T.E.Dickey <=
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, Henry Nelson, 1999/07/16
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, T.E.Dickey, 1999/07/17
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, Larry W. Virden, 1999/07/17
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, T.E.Dickey, 1999/07/17
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, T.E.Dickey, 1999/07/17
Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev4+Slang 1.3.8: arrow keys not working?, T.E.Dickey, 1999/07/17