[Toybox] [PATCH] scan_key: support more terminals.

[David Seikel]

I presume you meant to send this to the list.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:52:10 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 4/11/19 9:46 PM, David Seikel wrote:
> >>> luckily i suspect in 2019 we mainly want function keys just so we
> >>> can throw them away and get on to the next meaningful keypress!
> >>> but i can easily put this back to one constant per key if you
> >>> prefer.    
> >>
> >> Unfortunately a command line utility doesn't get to _see_ the
> >> function keys, so yeah probably.  
> > 
> > Users of mc and mcedit need functioning function keys, though they
> > do have a backup of Esc $DIGIT, which helps when a lot of X
> > terminals use F10 for their menus.  I know I long ago tried to get
> > mcedit into toybox.  
> 
> I googled, the first page is entirey about a world editor for
> minecraft?

mcedit is the text editor that comes with midnight commander, it can
be used stand alone.  Dunno about minecraft.

> (I never used midnight commander but I used to use xtreegold back
> under DOS, which is presumably what it cloned.)

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