Re: Triple modifier combinations and extra keys

[Michał Bieliński]

W dniu 2020-10-29 00:24, Thomas Dickey napisał:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 08:11:30AM +0100, michal@kast.net.pl wrote:
> > If this is documented why neither NCurses nor XTerm carry the
> > definitions in terminfo?
>
> There's more than one reason.  Offhand:
[snip compatibility reasons in a) and b)]
> c) I could just generate (whatever would fit in 64kb), but that has a 
> few
>    drawbacks:
>
>    a) it would be slower to load
>
>    b) very few people would use (and benefit by) it
>
>    c) half of the xterm-alikes don't really work for that anyway
>
> Given the drawbacks, I'd make a terminal description with a different
> name, for the people who might use it.

Thank you. That leads me to conclusion of keeping those extra 
definitions
in my program is most sensible solution at least for near future. This 
goes
double given that I need to interpret only arrow keys and editing keys 
with
full modifier sensitivity.

> > Is there a list of supported multimedia keys available anywhere? I 
> > could
> > not find anything relevant in NCurses or XTerm FAQ.
>
> no - it's dependent upon the keyboard configuration,
> and the people who develop that stuff don't produce useful 
> documentation.
>
> A few configurations are enough alike to make the terminal descriptions
> useful.

Ah, too bad. Perhaps doing my best with limited knowledge available and 
relying
on user bug reports will be enough.

--
Michał