On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:37:25PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:37:25 -0400
> From: Thomas Dickey <dic...@radix.net>
> Subject: Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?
> To: Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org>
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:41:17PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > I've got a 103-key keyboard. most of them produce the right WAV
> > file. i was having some trouble with the arrow key, but think i've
> > found a resolution. next are the Function key, F1 to F12.
> >
> > anybody on-list familiar with curses and can help me with this?
> > right now, most of the function keys output 4 clicks [!].
>
> I generally use tack for verifying the function-keys against the terminal
> description. (I don't recall seeing a port for tack, but it can probably
> be built starting with ncurses-devel, though I haven't tried that, since
> I build development versions of ncurses outside the ports).
>
> For _seeing_ the codes, it helps to type ^V (lnext) right before pressing
> a given key, making the escape character visible.
>
Hm. no joy in mudville. i know the first byte ia an
ESC [ '\033]. the last, for F1, is an A. the others are
hidden.
i'll check ncurses-devel and see w hat it has. REAL code
helps in stuff like this... .
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