Daniel Burrows wrote: > It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to > actually > catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses (and > slang?) were modified to handle this, most programs would inherit the changes, > and (b) even among the programs that do their own termcap handling, most > wouldn't be affected.
Hm, I've written slang programs that catch escape, not to mention jed catches escape, and there are certianly a large number of curses programs that do - all falvors of vi (of course!), dialog, and probably a slew more. -- see shy jo
