Re: filter() prevents clearing of screen, but still clears current line

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> On 19/03/07, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Most of the comment on that webpage I disagree with, since the same thing
> > can be done with define_key() - certainly long before 2004.
>
> define_key() has the very unfortunate property that it's
> per-application, not included in terminfo.  So you'd have to patch
> every single application to make it properly recognize, say, all the
> different variants of K_HOME.  This is contrary to the purpose of
> terminfo in the first place.

hmm - no.  Anyone can write an add-on library and use that instead
of the terminfo interface.

(Showing us the code would help continue the discussion).

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