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From: Leichter-Jerry@CS.YALE.EDU@venus.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Modification suggestion - restoring keyboard state
Message-ID: <44.25bf8afc@venus.ycc.yale.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 90 04:25:48 GMT
Organization: Yale Computer Center (YCC)
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I use a spawned editor with NEWS which turns off the application keypad on
exit.  Unfortunately, NEWS does NOT turn the application keypad back on when
an edit job - or a spawned process - returns to it.  It should.

Further, while CTRL/W re-paints the screen, it, too, fails to turn the keypad
back on.  In the case of something like a brief power hit on a terminal, it's
necessary to be tricky in order to get the keypad to work again.  (My trick:
Spawn a SET TERM/APPL command.)

Probably the best way to deal with this is simply to send an appropriate ini-
tialization string along with any screen refresh.  We're only talking about a
small number of characters....
							-- Jerry