Re: Need help setting BackSpace behaviour for slink
Avery Pennarun writes:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 11:56:51PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> > However, it gets (is it really what out keyboard policy asks ?)
> > character 263 decimal (latin1 superscript 3) when I press Backspace
> > both in an xterm and on the console.
> >
> > It works as expected when I hardcode to handle char 263 as a
> > backspace, but I don't really think that's the Right Way to solve
> > this.
>
> There is no ASCII character 263, since it's more than 8 bits :)
>
> Interestingly, 263 = 255 + 8, and 8 is the character for ^H, Backspace.
> This probably doesn't mean anything :)
>
> However, 263 is 0407 in octal, which according to /usr/include/curses.h is:
Uh, oh... seems I was tired enough to 1) mix octal and decimal 2)
forgot to check that 265 > 255 :(
> You know, with a few minor implementation changes, curses might not suck.
> I wonder what "unreliable" means.
Eh, as long as it works for us ;)
> Looks like you should accept KEY_BACKSPACE as a valid backspace character...
You know what ? It does not work .... (just kidding ;)
Thanks!
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