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Re: RT 6.4R: ibmapa16 termcap entry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 18 15:54:42 1989
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 89 15:54:24 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of Mon, 18 Dec 89 02:00:17 -0500,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 89 02:00:17 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
... doesn't have entries for arrow keys. (Thus, tcsh doesn't
recognize them.)
tcsh has the codes for the arrow keys hard-coded in the keymaps, using
the VT100/xterm codes. (Do a "list_keymap meta '['" and a "list_keymap
vt100" to see what I mean.) It was originally intended as a quick hack
to make lineediting indispensable for novice users. So having termcap
entries for the arrow keys won't help a whole lot.
At some point, it would be nice to completely rip out the line editor
and rewrite it so that's clean and easy to maintain and takes complete
advantage of the termcap entry. (Right now it only uses the bs and cl
entries.) This seems to fall into the luxury category, however.....
- Ted
