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From: adrie@philica.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Things to work on.
Message-ID: <694@philica.ica.philips.nl>
Date: 25 Oct 90 12:36:10 GMT
References: <34358@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <8040@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: adrie@beitel.ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen)
Organization: Philips TDS, Innovation Centre Aachen
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In article <8040@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>The arrow keys--in fact the entire numeric keypad-- have been fully supported
>since day 0.  When you hit them, they produce ANSI escape sequences.  All you
>need to do is build an elle profile and compile it with ellec.

I would propose to use /etc/termcap. The codes, generated when
you press cursor keys, depend on the type of terminal. When you're
working on a console and on a RS232c connected terminal, it's quite
an overhead of switching profiles all the time, when the environment
variable TERM reflects the type of terminal.

Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl)
Philips Innovation Centre Aachen