Re: alt-arrow keys

[Pierre Abbat]

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 17:55, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> That's normally done by the terminfo entry.  Alt is a modifier (does not
> normally send a character or character sequence by itself).   Common
> modifiers include shift, control and meta (which may be the same as alt).
>
> Some terminals have an optional feature for prefixing an ESC before the
> normal character value in response to alt.  If the keypad() mode is set
> true, (n)curses attempts to match the incoming characters against the
> known escape sequences.  Anything that's not recognized is left as
> separate characters.  (From the description it's not clear which way you
> have keypad() set to, or what $TERM you're using).

keypad is true, and TERM is "xterm". The program and the terminal are on the 
same computer.

I think what I'll do is make the altkey routine return anything that looks 
like an escape sequence of the form (escape bracket <some number of numbers 
separated by semicolons> letter), but isn't recognized, as a single number. 

phma