On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 05:48:51PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 08:16:09PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 04:05:14PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > > This is an ncurses question, but if I'm lucky Thomas Dickey might see it > > > here. :-) > > > > > > Anyway, I'm wondering if 'keypad (stdscr, TRUE);' is technically required > > > to > > > be called again after an (temporary) endwin()? > > > > keypad sets a property on the window, and it should not be needed, > > since the window is not altered by endwin > > Thank you Thomas for your time, and for the fast response. > > I was grepping around the ncurses code after I asked the question (without > understanding much of it, TBH), but I did find something about "keypad_xmit" > and "keypad_local" inside _nc_keypad(), that sort of looks like it may be > sending those to the terminal. > > Am I misunderstanding, or does that set a property on the terminal too? If > it does, could some terminals need the property reset on endwin() + > refresh()?
offhand, I suspect this chunk in lib_getch.c is solving that problem:
if (win->_use_keypad != sp->_keypad_on)
_nc_keypad(sp, win->_use_keypad);
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