Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:51:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key? Message-ID: <20111007045101.GA603@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20111006233725.GA18837@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20111006224114.GA15978@thought.org> <20111006233725.GA18837@saltmine.radix.net>
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:37:25PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:37:25 -0400 > From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> > Subject: Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key? > To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:41:17PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I've got a 103-key keyboard. most of them produce the right WAV > > file. i was having some trouble with the arrow key, but think i've > > found a resolution. next are the Function key, F1 to F12. > > > > anybody on-list familiar with curses and can help me with this? > > right now, most of the function keys output 4 clicks [!]. > > I generally use tack for verifying the function-keys against the terminal > description. (I don't recall seeing a port for tack, but it can probably > be built starting with ncurses-devel, though I haven't tried that, since > I build development versions of ncurses outside the ports). > > For _seeing_ the codes, it helps to type ^V (lnext) right before pressing > a given key, making the escape character visible. > Hm. no joy in mudville. i know the first byte ia an ESC [ '\033]. the last, for F1, is an A. the others are hidden. i'll check ncurses-devel and see w hat it has. REAL code helps in stuff like this... . > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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