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Re: keypad problem


From: Vincent Lefevre
Subject: Re: keypad problem
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:06:49 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.0i

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:18:40 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> That sounds right.  Odd as it may seem, terminfo was not designed to make it
> simple to use the vt100 keypad.  The following (man terminfo) applies, but is
> not necessarily implemented for all of the related terminfo entries:
> 
>        backward/up), khts (set a tab stop in  this  column).   In
>        addition, if the keypad has a 3 by 3 array of keys includ-
>        ing the four arrow keys, the other five keys can be  given
>        as  ka1,  ka3,  kb2,  kc1, and kc3.  These keys are useful
>        when the effects of a 3 by 3 directional pad are needed.
> 
> Note that it only defines 5 keys (vt100 keypad has 18).

But where is the bug? As NumLock is set on my keyboard, I just want
to have digits. And IIRC, it was said in the Mutt mailing-list that
it wasn't Mutt's fault as it doesn't deal with low-level things.

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