Subject: Re: sushi mysteries
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/09/2001 16:53:40
thanks for the analysis.
>> - if I tap some key that is not F3 (like F1/F2), sushi terminates.
>> xterm/kterm/wscons emits \033[12~ on F2. maybe \033 is recognized
>> as single escape character.
>Yeah.. I think there is a problem with the cdk -> curses interface on some
>terminal emulations.. It's treating function keys as escape keys. Brett Lymn
>suggested I fiddle with the curses timeout() function to get function keys
>recognized. Upping it from 100 to 150 solved a problem where PgUp and PgDn
>were getting interpreted by the form widgets as wierd keystrokes.
nvi needed some trick for this (ESC means, of course, termination of
vi command), so it should be a common problem...
itojun