Re: keypad functionality working?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:53:47AM +0100, Andrius Bentkus wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to get the keypad function working, but I just simply fail to do
> so.
> I have tried everything I can imagine to make it work.
> What I basically want is to press alt and a key at once, make getch return
> exactly one integer and be able to determine what I just have pressed,
> because for now I'm getting to values back with getch which are not easy to
> parse.

But it doesn't work that way...  getch will return a single number when
it sees

        a) a sequence of bytes
        b) within a short time interval, and
        c) the sequence is found in the terminal description's list of function
           keys.

Generally alt+key isn't in the terminal description since it would make it
too large (except for special cases).  You could use ncurses extension
define_key to extend it at runtime.

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