Re: Intercepting Ctrl and Meta key

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, TheLonelyStar wrote:

> How can I get keyboard events which are combined with Ctrl and Meta (Alt)
> key?

That's dependent on the terminal.  It may send a special character string
(which is what ncurses can use), or it may require some special system
calls (not done here ;-).

For the special character strings, ncurses would use the terminal 
description for that particular terminal type.  The convention here
is to assign the various combinations as just another function-key.
You can see an example with

        infocmp xterm-new

(there's pros/cons about providing a different style of interface -
this happens to offer the fewest surprises to portable curses apps)

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