Re: Problem with function keys codes with vt100 emulation

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:42:15PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:23:37PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>Chris,
>>
>>At 18:07 2002-11-06, you wrote:
>>>On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:50:12PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>>>The terminal emulation available under Cygwin is not programmable, so it's
>>>>up to the software to adapt to it, not vice versa.
>>>
>>>I will note that it is very weird that F1 - F4 in cygwin are generating
>>>the same sequences as up/down/left/right.  Something is messed up
>>>somewhere, there.
>>
>>It would be weird if it were happening, but I have readline ("~/.inputrc") 
>>mappings for all the Fn keys and "Insert" and "Delete" as well as the usual 
>>pre-defined, built-in mappings for the arrow keys. Though I usually keep 
>>NumLock engaged, the arrow keys on the number pad work fine when I 
>>disengage it.
>
>But, if you type F1 while you are in /bin/sh, you'll see the cursor move
>up a line.  That indicates that cygwin is mapping F1 to ^[[A, which is,
>AFAICT, incorrect.  It probably *should* be mapping to ^[OP.  And, F2
>should be ^[OQ, etc.

Nevermind.  I see.  That's the way linux does it.  Seems odd to me.  Why
map f1 to be the same as up arrow?

cgf

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