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Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP |
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:47:22 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> Yikes! Did I misunderstand this statement?
>
> > There is a more or less universal mapping, based on vt2xx terminals, and
> > that's what lynx assumes by default. It certainly makes more sense than
> > assuming *your* non-"standard" environment by default.
>
> Reading this, one _might_ be tempted to make a leap of semi-logic to
> say that it implies that lynx has 'hard coded' assumptions regarding specific
> escape sequences.
No leaping logic is needed to come to that conclusion, a visit of the
archives around the time of 2.8.3dev.4 should be enough...
> Surely it goes to the terminfo database to pick up the
> specific sequences , based on general 'key sym' names, doesn't it?
It uses both. The mappings based on terminfo (or termcap, or ~/.lynx-keymap)
should override the builtin defaults. If they don't, that would be a bug.
So far it hasn't been shown that it has happened.
Klaus
- lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/19
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/19
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/19
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Larry W. Virden, 1999/10/19
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP,
Klaus Weide <=
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/19
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/19
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/19
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/21
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/21
- Re: lynx-dev something wrong with LYNXKEYMAP, Henry Nelson, 1999/10/21