Re: pb with arrows and numeric keypad (rxvt terminfo)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 10:06:45PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 14:17:25 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > The thing to fix is the terminfo description.  For instance, you could make
> > a terminfo that doesn't set application-mode for cursor- and keypad-keys,
> > and use that instead of the standard one.
> 
> Perhaps, but what I don't understand is why applications such as Mutt
> select the application-mode keypad while they don't support it.

because if you don't use the keypad() function, you won't get KEY_xxx
symbols usable in the curses application.

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