Re: keystrokes change according to runlevel

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Fri, 20 May 2011, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Wednesday 2011-05-18 17:19, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > Could some dev look at
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400552 and either suggest
> > that's really a bug that should be filed in the mc tracker, or comment
> > there as to how to find a solution, or even propose one there?
>
> Linux VT: (key -> produces -> interpreted as .. by terminfo)
> Shift-F1 -> ^[[25~ -> kf13
> Shift-F2 -> ^[[26~ -> kf14
> Shift-F3 -> ^[[28~ -> kf15
> Shift-F4 -> ^[[29~ -> kf16
> Shift-F5 -> ^[[31~ -> kf17
> Shift-F6 -> ^[[32~ -> kf18
>
> Xterm:
> Shift-F1 -> ^[[1;2P -> kf13
> Shift-F2 -> ^[[1;2Q -> kf14
> Shift-F3 -> ^[[1;2R -> kf15
> Shift-F4 -> ^[[1;2S -> kf16
> Shift-F5 -> ^[[15;2~ -> kf17
> Shift-F6 -> ^[[17;2~ -> kf18

the xterm definitions are all extended capabilities...

> So the terminfo db looks ok, so is this perhaps a slang problem?

slang doesn't use the extended key definitions in terminfo;
it uses only the conventional 2-character names in termcap.

so yes, that is a slang problem.

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