Re: [bug-gtypist] Backspace 0407 interferes with 'c with acute' U+0107

[Kalthor]

  Hi Felix,

Yes, you're right. I didn't notice/think that removing KEY_BACKSPACE will break 
the speed tests.

Thanks for reporting this problem to ncurses devs. Hope, they'll consider it 
quickly.

  Cheers,
  K.

"Felix Natter" <address@hidden> pisze:
> Kalthor  writes:
> 
> >   Hello,
> 
> hello Kalthor,
> 
> > I noticed that it is not possible to input one of the Polish diacritic
> > letters 'c with acute' (unicode 0x107 = 263) because it interferes
> > with KEY_BACKSPACE defined in ncurses.h (0407 = 263)
> 
> Thanks for reporting and analyzing this!
> 
> > I removed rc == KEY_BACKSPACE from the condition in lines 700 and 991
> > which seems to help on my platform: ubuntu 12.04, gtypist 2.9.1
> 
> This will not work, at least not for speedtests (where BACKSPACEs are
> honored). However, you may want to use this as a workaround if you don't
> use speedtests.
> For normal drills, BACKSPACEs are just ignored, so with your change, you
> will get errors when you type backspaces.
> 
> Simply using 0x8 does not work with ncurses(w). I've read the ncursesw
> man-pages, but couldn't find a solution for this, so I've posted on
> ncurses-bugs:
>   http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.ncurses.bugs
> 
> Best Regards and thanks again,
> -- 
> Felix Natter
>