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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:43:42AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 16:59:29 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > because if you don't use the keypad() function, you won't get KEY_xxx
> > symbols usable in the curses application.
> 
> This is annoying to have a function that does two different things...

that's because it gives you access to the more common features of terminals
rather than addressing special cases.

but as I said before, you can get what you're looking for by modifying the
terminfo description.  there's no need to modify the C code.

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