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Re: GRUB_CONSOLE_KEY_NPAGE/PPAGE codes
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Vesa Jääskeläinen |
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Re: GRUB_CONSOLE_KEY_NPAGE/PPAGE codes |
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Date: |
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:08:00 +0300 |
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Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> In the ChangeLog from Grub (not Grub2) I can read:
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> 1999-03-13 Gordon Matzigkeit <address@hidden>
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> [...]
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> * shared_src/shared.h (KEY_DELETE): Rename to KEY_DC, for
> compatibility with curses.
> (KEY_INSERT): Rename to KEY_IC.
> (KEY_PGDN): Rename to KEY_NPAGE.
> (KEY_PGUP): Rename to KEY_PPAGE.
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> These names are still valid in libncurses5.
wtf?!
What idiocy is this ?? Making it really hard for normal people to
understand what those means. I would go for understandability and not to
be "compatible" with curses internally... curses terminal driver can use
what ever it wants.