Re: Cursor keys on numeric keypad

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Mike Aubury wrote:

> My applications are working fine with the normal cursor keys - but dont work
> with the ones on the numeric keypad (with NUM LOCK turned off!)..

That's because the numeric keypad can be set in a variety of states,
while terminfo (and (n)curses) assume only one state.

> Using 'bash' with the same keyboard/terminal (eg. when my application finished
> ) seems to manage to use them without issues...
>
> I've seen some bits on google about a terminal capability 'ks' and/or 'ke'.

That's termcap - which would correspond to the keypad() function in 
curses.

> Is there some extra initialization code I might be missing ?
> (I've set keypad etc - as I say - normal cursor keys work just fine)

No - you could use define_key() to add terminal-specific bindings at 
runtime...

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